The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says it will likely recommend felony charges against three Colorado elementary school students — one an 11 year old and two others who are both 10 years old — after they allegedly threw multiple large rocks from their school bus that then hit a car passing in the other direction.
“It’s disturbing. It’s absolutely not funny,” said Jefferson County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Jacki Kelley. “It’s not a prank. It’s criminal and it won’t be tolerated.”
She called the incident “eerily similar” to the 2023 rock throwing incident that killed Alexa Bartell. In that case, three men were in a speeding truck when one threw a landscaping rock that smashed through Bartell’s windshield and killed the 20-year-old woman.
The most recent incident occurred May 8 when the boys were headed to school on a Jefferson County Public Schools bus. According to investigators, two rocks were thrown from the bus at a car passing in the other direction. The rocks were “described to me as 6 inch boulders or landscaping rocks,” said Kelley…