In a packed Colorado courtroom, family and friends of Alexa Bartell put their grief into words on Thursday morning.
“What mother should have to live with that kind of goodbye — one that never happened? To this day I can’t make peace with the fact that she’s gone,” Kelly Bartell said during the sentencing in Jefferson County Court of Nicholas Karol-Chik. Karol-Chik was given a sentence of 45 years in prison .
Alexa’s mother said she carries the loss of her daughter with her daily. The 20-year-old was killed two years ago during a violent rock-throwing spree on the west end of the Denver metro area. Karol-Chik was one of the three defendants in the spree, and the first to be sentenced.
Kelly Bartell told the court the weight of her sorrow is heaviest when even a hint of happiness returns to her life…