Stone-faced and clad in an orange jumpsuit, 20-year-old Zachary Kwak sat at the witness stand in a Jefferson County courtroom Thursday ready to implicate his co-defendant on a murder charge.
“I didn’t want to be a part of what was about to happen,” he told the jury about the minutes before the death of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell.
Kwak, a co-defendant in the case connected to the death of Bartell in 2023, took the stand to detail the events leading up to the death that resulted in the first-degree murder trial of 20-year-old Joseph Koenig. Kwak’s testimony came as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, in which he avoided trial on murder charges and will spend no more than 32 years in prison on a first-degree assault conviction…