A Colorado man who reportedly had a “big smile on his face” after throwing a rock off an overpass at a vehicle, causing the death of its driver , was found guilty of murder.
Joseph Edwin Koenig, 20, was charged with 19 felonies in connection with the April 2023 death of Alexa Bartell , 20, and found guilty by a jury of all of them. Koenig was one of three teenagers riding in a truck that was reportedly traveling as fast as 103 mph on a road in Colorado’s Jefferson County. That night, the three boys took turns throwing rocks at other cars passing by, including the Chevy Spark driven by Bartell.
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The other two passengers in the car — Nicholas Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak — took plea deals and testified against their now-former friend. As previously reported by Law&Crime, Karol-Chik admitted to taking part in the same rock-throwing activity on previous occasions. While he was on the stand testifying against Koenig, he told the court that Koenig let out a satisfied whoop when he saw Bartell’s car veer off the street and into a fence.
Karol-Chik told the court that Koenig “was excited. He would just look at us with this big smile on his face.”…