Tag: Zachary Kwak
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Judge allows ‘prior acts’ evidence in rock-throwing trial for suspect in Alexa Bartell’s death
When Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik told interrogators that the night of April 19, 2023 wasn’t the first time he’d thrown objects at moving cars, the admission was a bombshell. This week, First Judicial District Judge Christopher Zenisek ruled that information from Karol-Chik’s video-taped interview about the “prior acts” of rock-throwing can be admitted at Joseph Koenig’s…
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Expert on adolescent brain to testify in rock-throwing trial
One of the country’s leading psychological experts on the maturity of the adolescent brain will be allowed to testify in the upcoming trial of a man accused of throwing the rock that killed Alexa Bartell. First Judicial District Judge Christopher Zenicek denied the prosecution’s motion to exclude the testimony of Dr. Laurence Steinberg saying it…
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Alexa Bartell murder: as trial deadline looms, defendants may turn
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the trial deadline looms for three suspects accused of killing an Arvada woman in a rock-throwing spree, it’s starting to look like two against one. Alexa Bartell’s tragic death shocked the Front Range last April. In an evidentiary hearing Tuesday, 1st Judicial Judge Christopher…
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Defense in deadly rock-throwing case wants confession thrown out
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a day-long motions hearing Thursday, one of three defendants on trial for Alexa Bartell’s April 2023 rock-throwing murder fought to have a four-hour confession he gave the night he was arrested thrown out of his upcoming trial. Attorneys for Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik claimed that…
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Two more victims emerge in deadly rock-throwing case
Two more victims have surfaced in connection with a deadly night of rock-throwing that ended up in the brutal death of a 20-year-old Arvada woman last year, a Monday court hearing revealed. Joseph Koenig, one of three rock-throwing suspects, has been charged with four additional counts — two each of attempted murder and second-degree assault in…
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Rock throwing suspects to have separate trials, judge rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There will be three separate trials for three teenagers who allegedly hit seven vehicles with large landscaping rocks while they were driving, bursting the windshield of one and causing the death an Arvada woman, a judge ruled Friday. Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, Zachary Kwak and Joseph…
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What happened the night 3 suspects went on a deadly rock-throwing spree
A landscape river rock hit Alexa Bartell’s car so hard, it sounded like a “rail gun,” one of the teens suspected of killing her told Jefferson County Sheriff’s investigators. Arrest records obtained by The Denver Gazette said the rock slammed into the windshield of Bartell’s car, hit her in the head, and exited the back…