DENVER – One of the three men convicted in the killing of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell during a spree of rock-throwing attacks in Jefferson County more than two years ago asked the judge to reduce his prison sentence this month.
Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik was sentenced in May to 45 years in prison for the death of Bartell, who was killed April 19, 2023, when Karol-Chik and two other teenagers threw a 9.3-pound rock through her windshield as she drove on Indiana Street near the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. The rock struck Bartell in the head.
Karol-Chik asked First Judicial District Court Judge Christopher Zenisek to reduce his sentence from 45 to 35 years in prison, the lowest possible sentence he could serve under the terms of his plea agreement…