NEW: The three men accused of killing a 20-year-old woman while throwing rocks through random drivers’ windshields earlier this month were formally charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, attempted murder, assault and attempted assault
The three men accused of killing a 20-year-old woman while throwing rocks through random drivers’ windshields last month were formally charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, attempted murder, assault and attempted assault, according to theJoseph Koenig, Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, all 18, face life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of first-degree murder in the death of.
Each man faces 13 charges: a single count of first-degree murder with extreme indifference; six counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of second-degree assault and three counts of attempted second-degree assault. From left, Joseph Koenig, Nicholas Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak were arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, with extreme indifference, after allegedly throwing large rocks at drivers that targeted at least seven victims, including 20-year-old Alexa Bartell, who was killed when a rock crashed through the window of her vehicle. that night across west metro Denver, authorities say.
Investigators with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office initially used cellphone tower location data to zero in on the teenagers as suspects, andspoke to a witness who had been with the teens that night and saw them loading up their truck with landscaping stones from a Walmart parking lot.
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