US EditionMan Who Threw Rocks at Random Cars Guilty of Murder
- A Colorado jury convicted Joseph Koenig Friday of first-degree murder for killing Alexa Bartell with a large rock thrown from a truck on April 19, 2023.
- This conviction stemmed from a rock-throwing spree by Koenig and two friends targeting passing cars near suburban Denver in 2023.
- Koenig's friends, Zachary Kwak and Nicholas Karol-Chik, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and testified against him during the two-week trial.
- The fatal rock weighed 9.3 pounds, and prosecutors argued the damage was consistent with Koenig throwing it shotput-style from the driver's side.
- Koenig faces a life prison sentence at his June 3 sentencing, while his co-defendants await sentencing under their separate plea agreements.
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Teen Convicted of Murder After Deadly Night of Rock Throwing - Miamistandard News
Golden, Colorado — Three Denver-area teenagers cheered one other on during a night of hurling rocks at automobiles, until one of the stones crashed through a windscreen and killed a woman, resulting in a murder conviction Friday after the trio turned on one another. Jurors judged Joseph Koenig guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Alexa Bartell on April 19, 2023, after the other young men riding with him negotiated an agreement with pr…
Driver convicted in rock-throwing case
GOLDEN, Colo. — The last of three friends accused of killing a driver in Colorado by throwing a rock through the windshield of her car has been convicted. A jury on Friday found Joseph Koenig guilty of first-degree murder in…
Man Who Threw Rocks at Random Cars Guilty of Murder
A night of rock-throwing in suburban Denver has led to a first-degree murder conviction for the final member of a group of three friends. Jurors had to unravel shifting stories and plea deals before finding Joseph Koenig guilty in the killing of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell, the AP reports. Bartell died...
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