US EditionFinal suspect to be sentenced in rock-throwing death
- Joseph Koenig, a 20-year-old from Jefferson County, received a life imprisonment sentence without parole for his role in a 2023 rock-throwing incident that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell.
- The attack took place during a series of six rock-throwing episodes in unincorporated Jefferson County, culminating on April 19, 2023, near Indiana Street close to the wildlife refuge formerly known as Rocky Flats.
- Koenig and two co-defendants threw landscaping rocks at moving cars, causing damage but only Bartell was fatally injured when a 9.3-pound rock struck her head through her windshield.
- Koenig was found guilty on 19 counts, including first-degree murder, and received a 60-year sentence to run consecutively, while co-defendants pleaded guilty to lesser charges for testimony.
- The sentencing ended a two-year case that highlighted community loss and safety concerns with authorities urging anyone affected to report similar incidents to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
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Facing the Music: Teen With ‘Nothing Else to Do’ Throws Rock at Car, and Girl Dies - 🔔 The Liberty Daily
(WND)—According to defense lawyers for three boys arrested for throwing rocks at vehicles, they were “seniors in high school with nothing else to do,” and they really didn’t mean to hurt anyone. The result was that a teen girl died when she was hit by a rock one boy threw, and he now has been sentenced, under state guidelines, to life in prison without parole, plus 60 years, according to a report from Denver television channel 7. It was Alexa Ba…
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Uncanceled NewsFacing the Music: Teen With ‘Nothing Else to Do’ Throws Rock at Car, and Girl Dies
(WND)—According to defense lawyers for three boys arrested for throwing rocks at vehicles, they were “seniors in high school with nothing else to do,” and they really didn’t mean to hurt anyone. The result was that a teen girl died when she was hit by a rock one boy threw, and he now has been sentenced, under state guidelines, to life in prison without parole, plus 60 years, according to a report from Denver television channel 7. It was Alexa Ba…
6 new incidents of rock-throwing at moving vehicles in Jefferson County
Nearly a year and a half after a 20-year-old Arvada woman was killed when three suspects on a rock-throwing spree threw a landscaping rock through her windshield, someone is throwing rocks at moving cars again.
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