WEEK OF JUNE 29, 2023
VOLUME 19 | ISSUE 2
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Two years later, friends and family remember Olde $2 million bond Town shooting victims Gordon Beesley, Johnny Hurley set for teens
charged in rockthrowing spree BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL COLORADO SUN
Flowers were left to remember Gordon Beesley. BY LILLIAN FUGLEI LFUGLEI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Olde Town Square was filled with chalk messages and flowers on June 21, 2023, as friends and family members of Gordon Beesley and Johnny Hurley gathered to remember the victims on the two-year anniversary of the Olde Town shooting.
Several friends of Hurley addressed the crowd at the memorial, sharing stories of their time with Hurley, emphasizing his kindness and heroism. One young woman who spoke said she was a survivor of the Olde Town shooting and thanked Hurley for his actions during the shooting, saying that he had saved her life. A moment of silence was held
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A judge set a $2 million cash-only bond Wednesday for each of the three teens charged with first-degree murder in a rock-throwing spree that killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell and injured several others. Joseph Koenig, Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, all 18, must also surrender their passport and driver’s license, comply with protection orders against victims in the case, are prohibited from drinking alcohol and must be monitored by GPS, 1st Judicial District Court Judge Christopher Zenisek said during a hearing Wednesday morning in Jefferson County. Zenisek denied a request to set bond at $10 million by the prosecution, who argued that the three young men’s actions “was indiscriminate murder” and that their release from jail would put the community at risk. “There’s no amount that will alleviate PHOTO BY LILLIAN FUGLEI the pain that the victims are feeling and have expressed here and I am sorry for at 1:37 p.m., the time of Hurley’s your loss, and there is no amount that death, for both victims. At that time, adequately will symbolize the imporThe Shrine of St. Anne’s Catholic tance of that individual to this commuChurch rang its bells in rememnity,” Zenisek said. “So, that’s not what brance of Beesley and Hurley. the court is seeking to do here. This is Later, some of Hurley’s friends a different task before the court that is performed music they had written to set bond appropriately as the court for him, as well as a spoken word must do with regard to each of these poem. individuals before the court.” SEE ANNIVERSAY PHOTOS, P3
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