Life in Italian prison for 2 U.S. friends guilty of slaying policeman
Robert Besser
09 May 2021, 20:02 GMT+10
Two young Americans - Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20 have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 slaying of an Italian policeman
Prosecutors said Elder stabbed to death Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega 11 times while attempting to buy drugs on July 26, 2019
Later, Natale-Hjorth helped Elder hide the knife used in the stabbing in their hotel room
ROME, Italy: Two young Americans have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 slaying of an Italian policeman.
Found guilty of murder were Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, former schoolmates from the San Francisco-area.
Italian court sentences 2 U.S. men to life for killing policeman
09 May 2021, 20:02 GMT+10
ROME, Italy: Two young Americans have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 slaying of an Italian policeman.
Found guilty of murder were Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, former schoolmates from the San Francisco-area.
Prosecutors said Elder stabbed to death Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega 11 times while attempting to buy drugs on July 26, 2019.
Later, Natale-Hjorth helped Elder hide the knife used in the stabbing in their hotel room. Under Italian law, Natale-Hjorth is an accomplice and was charged with murder without materially performing the slaying.
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Finnegan Lee Elder, wipes his eye, as he and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth listen as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where they were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. A jury in Rome on Wednesday convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a drug sting gone awry, sentencing them to life in prison. The jury deliberated more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, handing them Italy s stiffest sentence.Gregorio Borgia/AP
By: Associated Press
A jury convicted two American friends Wednesday in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison.
The jury of two judges and six civilians deliberated more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, handing them Italy s stiffest sentence.
Elder and Natale-Hjorth were found guilty of all charges: homicide, attempted extortion, assault, resisting a public official and carrying an attack-style knife without just cause. There was a gasp in the Rome courtroom as the presiding judge, Marina Finiti, read the verdict.