Friend of Alexa Bartell, killed in rock attack, remembers her life

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Friends of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell, the woman killed by a thrown rock in Jefferson County, remember her as someone who left a mark.

According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Bartell, of Arvada, was driving northbound near the 10600 block of Indiana Street. The Sheriff’s Office believes the suspects threw a large rock either from a vehicle or the side of the road at Bartell’s car.

Those who knew Alexa, like former high school classmate Emily Audette, are still in shock.

“It just doesn’t feel real,” Audette said. “She was always just someone you could go to about anything, someone you could always talk to. She was…