When asked why, he replied that he thought Joseph or Mitch would want it as a memento." "As they passed where the vehicle had stopped, Zachary used his cellphone to take a picture of the vehicle. Mitch noted that he felt 'a hint of guilt,'" an investigator wrote. Joe slowed the vehicle so that Zach could take a photo of it. When they turned around to see Alexis' vehicle, they drove past it northbound, and turned around southbound. "Mitch again stated it was Zach who threw the 'fatal' rock at Alexis' vehicle. Investigators said they used cellphone tracking and DNA evidence to connect the three to Bartell's death, and an arrest affidavit portrays a callous and gleeful attack on strangers.įacing charges are Joseph Koenig, Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, all 18. On April 19, investigators said, the teens loaded up the bed of a pickup with melon-size landscaping stones and began hurling them at vehicles as they sped around a suburban area at up to 75 mph, using military or gaming terms to coordinate their attacks. The three briefly appeared in court on Thursday.Īccording to court records, two of the teens had thrown items at passing cars over the course of several months.
DENVER - Three teenagers accused of callously killing a woman by throwing a rock through her windshield confessed to taking pictures of her car but not trying to help her after she careened off the road, according to police.Īlexa Bartell, 20, died April 19 after a rock crashed through her windshield, and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office earlier this week arrested three teens in connection with her death and multiple other rock-throwing incidents that night.
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