One of Koenig's lawyers, Martin Stuart, told jurors to instead find him guilty of manslaughter, the least serious charge he faced in Bartell's death, because he didn't knowingly try to kill her.

FILE PHOTO: Defendant Joseph Koenig sits with his attorneys, Tom Ward and Martin Stuart, during a previous motions hearings and arraignment. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the April 19 ...

Troubled high school senior Joseph Koenig, 18, posted an image on Facebook of a motorcycle that had a sticker reading, “JUST KILLED A WOMAN…FEELING GOOD” plastered on it. Troubled… ...

Joseph Koenig was found guilty and convicted of first-degree murder after a two-week trial, according to reports. AP Koenig, now 20, insisted that another person in the trio threw the rock that ...

Koenig’s defense didn’t argue that he didn’t commit a crime but pleaded that the jury find him guilty of a reckless manslaughter charge. “You’re right. What Joe Koenig did was a crime ...

A Jefferson County jury on Friday convicted Joseph Koenig on 19 counts, including first-degree murder for the 2023 death of Alexa Bartell, who was killed when a rock smashed through her windshield ...

Jurors have found Joseph Koenig, now 20, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2023 death of Alexa Bartell, who was killed after a stone crashed through her windshield.

In the trial of a Jefferson County rock-throwing case, Zachary Kwak testified that Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik urged driver Joseph Koenig to speed up as a car driven by Alexa Bartell, 20 ...

Joseph Koenig, 19, Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, 18, and Zachary Kwak, 18, already are facing murder charges in Jefferson County in connection with the April 19 death of 20-year-old Alexa ...

Koenig was charged with first-degree murder in Bartell’s death, as well as nine additional criminal counts of attempted first-degree murder for allegedly throwing rocks at other vehicles.