Three high school seniors arrested in fatal rock-throwing incident killing 20 year old female driver

This happened in Houston some years ago but they never caught the culprits. It was all over the news and a reward offered but nothing came of it.

Senseless violence that ended a life. The culprits should be punished to the fullest extent of the law to make an example of them. If parents aren't going to raise kids that know the difference between right and wrong, they will end up in jail.

Three ugly assholes.

I'm so so glad they're facing first-degree murder charges. That's what this clearly was.

What gets me is: If I were planning to go out and murder someone for shits & giggles, I'd pick someone I thought was deserving. I wouldn't strike random people whose faces I don't even see.

I mean, if you're gonna maybe do 25-to-life, at least make it count.

Soulless, ugly, [italic]and[/italic] stupid.

Zach Kwak?

Looks like a bunch of groady, glue-sniffing losers.

As usual, what a waste. Poor girl was just 20.

Meth.

Scary, violent people.

A few decades ago I was driving on a winter night on a highway outside a large city, my boss as passenger en route to a new work project we would start the next day in another city. As we passed under an overpass, a large concrete block crashed through the windshield and landed atop the stick shift, one of the two holes in the large block framing the stick and the other the rear view mirror and loads of tiny glass shards. I remember it was so shocking that I had to keep retracing what I was doing to explain the noise and mess and danger of the situation.

I drove to a nearby highway patrol office of some sort. The officers were not unsympathetic, but completely nonplussed. It happened all the time, they said, and with some grave injuries, and almost never anyone caught or brought to any kind of justice.

I had never very big on driving and saw it more as a necessary evil, but that event made and, a couple of other near accidents that same winter made me rethink the 'need' to drive. I still did it, but rom that winter, I never did without thinking of the dangers and did it as little as possible. Today I live in a place where that kind of random violence is all but unknown, I don't own a car and haven't rented one for 5 years or so. It's not something I miss in the least, and that horrifying incident of 'What happened? What happened?' flashes back only when I read stories like this.

Female? RIP

I read stories like this and do you know what I want? I want the parents of these three fine, upstanding citizens to appear in court as well. I want them shown individually on the local news and in newspapers. I just do - these lowlifes did not just appear in the world. They were born, "raised" (more likely ignored), etc... and I want the world to see who spawned such monsters.

Oh, and I want public stockades too... so the parents and the three murderers can be mocked by the public. I want them humiliated.

I'm not a good person...

R10. I could not agree with you more. And I don't think think you are a bad person. People have babies and then don't raise them. Hold them accountable too. Stockades are fine too. Public humiliation is worth a try. It worked in the old days. Who knows if these low life's would even care? MUCH stronger on violent crime is the only way. I do not care what color they are, what sex they are, what gender they identify with or hold old they are. Hold them accountable. Let the jail system raise them since their parents didn't. Zero sympathy.

The kids need to do some time for that. When I was 13 a buddy and I stretched a garden hose across the street at windshield level. A car came by as we hid in a bush. The hose stretched for a second then broke the cars window. We thought it would be funny, not thinking it through, feeling awful afterward we learned our lesson, we never did that again.

In my hometown, when I was a kid, a 400lb man waited on a overpass in the wee hours until a vehicle, a UPS truck, drove under it, on the all but deserted interstate.

The 400lb man* flung himself off the overpass, deliberately landing on the truck , killing himself and the UPS driver, a married father of a young boy.

*This happened in the 1990s before EVERYONE was fat, 400lbs was a lot back then, the equivalent to 650lbs in 2023 weight, “accounting for inflation.”

Those three are barbarians, mongoloids.

I think the teen brain, in its underdeveloped and impulsive state, seriously doesn't comprehend that doing stupid shit like this can actually kill someone. I think they believe it'll only damage the car. The reasoning is just not quite there, yet. This happened in Michigan (Flint area) a few years ago, also.

Three details I got wrong: it was early 2001, not the 90s, the guy was 300lbs which would have been like 400lbs today, and the driver worked for Schwann’s, not UPS. The driver who was killed by the 300lb man had several young kids, not just one.

I looked up the story after i posted and I wanted to come back and set the record straight!

R4, those people all look way older than 18. As you go from left to right, each person looks 10 years older than the previous guy.

They all have huge noses. What's up with that?

And at least two have receding hairlines!

R15, good thing then that these cases are always well-publicized then so that pretty much everyone over the age of 12 knows that hurling large rocks off overpasses (or rolling a big log off a cliff when you’re aware there’s someone standing directly below) can easily kill someone.

Eighteen year olds know better. A nine year old knows better.

If these three shiftless losers were black, everyone would be calling them animals. Instead you’re here saying kids don’t know any better. They’re EIGHTEEN years old. They knew the potential for harm, they just didn’t care.

I’m tired of this ‘not-fully-developed brain’ excuse that is constantly trotted out these days. So what? That’s changed very little in hundreds of years, but now it’s everyone’s excuse for being a murderous dumbass.

Look at them, they have nothing to lose! What the fuck do they care?

[quote] And at least two have receding hairlines!

Too much testosterone.

[quote] They’re EIGHTEEN years old. They knew the potential for harm…

They knew about the Laws of Physics. They learnt all about Isaac Newton in school.

Took a photo of the car as a memento— that’s beyond an impulsive moment. That’s sociopathy.

The one that looks like a 42 year old bum was protected by his dad: “Koenig’s father was also arrested for allegedly trying to obstruct his son's arrest, the sheriff's office said.”

Such trash!

I’m guessing none of these three was homecoming king, football quarterback or valedictorian of the high school. I can see one asshole or two together doing this for kicks. But three? True losers. It’s so depressing that the lovely young woman lost her life for nothing.

“We” are treating lives like they are ants on the sidewalk.

One in the middle's got purdy lips

Neighbor of one of the killers is "not surprised" he did this.

Zachary Kwak sentenced to 32 years in prison for rock-throwing incident that killed Alexa Bartell

this is why you don't let them hit puberty

Good! What a horrific way to die. Poor woman.

[quote]I think the teen brain, in its underdeveloped and impulsive state, seriously doesn't comprehend that doing stupid shit like this can actually kill someone.

Bullshit R15.

When I was in high school, a kid a couple years ahead of me dropped a large rock from an overpass onto a car and it went through the windshield killing the driver. He and the two kids with him were caught, not sure how the police found them or if they turned themselves in. It happened in the summer and that fall he was back at school. It’s pretty shocking to think about it now; it was in the late 60s. Small town.

What happened to them?

The worst I knew about was a friend’s sister was staying at the Flagship Hotel in Galveston and since it was along a pier and back then the windows opened (I guess?) , she and her friend got a bunch of tampons wet with water and dropped them on other guests.

Actually, when I was commuting to DC from Baltimore, a bunch of kids threw rocks at our train windows. Scared the crap out of me.

Flagship, post-Hurricane Ike. It was such an iconic Galveston building but was torn down.

If they had been sexy, Datalounge would be pleading for lenience and counseling.

Hope they get a couple of decades. No sympathy.

[quote]If they had been sexy, Datalounge would be pleading for lenience and counseling.

But they're not, now are they?

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