Rock throwing shitbags sentenced.

The second of three men who took part in the rock-throwing case that ended in the murder of Alexa Bartell has been sentenced, as Zachary Kwak received 32 years in prison on May 2.

Kwak’s sentence is the lightest of the three. Fellow defendant Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik was sentenced to 45 years on May 1, and Joseph Koenig was convicted of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. Koenig will be sentenced on June 3.

In May 2024, Kwak took a plea deal and cooperated with authorities throughout their investigation into Bartell’s death. He testified against Koenig during Koenig’s murder trial last month, during which he maintained that Koenig threw the rock that killed Bartell and that Kwak himself threw no rocks on the night of April 19, 2023.

https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2025/05/02/second-murder-rock-throwning-arvada/