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By FRANCES DEMILIO | Associated Press | Published: May 5, 2021 ROME — A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison. More than 12 hours after deliberations began, the jury of two judges and six civilians delivered verdicts and sentences Wednesday night that set off a collective gasp in the courtroom: Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Na...

May 6, 2021 Share A jury in Rome on Wednesday convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, 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. Elder and Natale-Hjorth were indicted on charges of homicide, attempted extortion, assault, resisting a ...

2 American Tourists Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murdering Italian Newlywed Police Officer People 5/6/2021 © Provided by People Alberto Pizzoli/AP/Shutterstock Two Americans from California were sentenced to life in prison by a jury in Rome on Wednesday for the stabbing of an Italian police officer. Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, were found guilty of charges of homicide, attempted extortion, assault, resisting a public official and carrying an attack-style knife ...

Rome jury convicts two American friends in slaying of police officer 5 May, 2021 11:50 PM 6 minutes to read Finnegan Lee Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, right, listen as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer. Photo / AP Finnegan Lee Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, right, listen as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer. Photo / AP AP A jury convicted two...

Published Wednesday, May 5, 2021 8:32AM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, May 5, 2021 6:03PM EDT ROME - A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison. More than 12 hours after deliberations began, the jury of two judges and six civilians delivered verdicts and sentences Wednesday night that set off a collective gasp...

oxygen Insider Exclusive! Sign Up for Free to View Two American men were sentence to life in prison by an Italian jury on Wednesday for the 2019 stabbing death of a police officer, who was killed in the streets of Rome during a low-level drug deal gone horribly wrong.  Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, were found guilty of homicide and four other charges for the July 26, 2019 stabbing death by Elder of 35-year-old Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega. A gasp was heard in...

Two California students, 20 and 21, are found guilty of murdering Italian cop with a Rambo knife in botched drug deal while on vacation and sentenced to life in prison Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, were convicted by a jury in Rome on Wednesday  The jury recommended a life sentence for the murder of Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35 Elder stabbed Rega 11 times with a 7-inch blade on July 26, 2019 after a drug deal went awry  Natale-Hjorth, whom Elder knew from hi...

Rome jury convicts 2 US friends in slaying of police officer FRANCES DEMILIO, Associated Press May 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 24 1of24Finnegan 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 ...

Rome jury convicts 2 Bay Area men in slaying of police officer By FRANCES DEMILIO Rome jury convicts 2 Bay Area friends for police officer’s murder The two Bay Area men were sentenced to life in prison, the jury in Rome announced Wednesday. For more, KTVUs Heather Holmes spoke with KTVU Legal Analyst Michael Cardoza. ROME - A jury in Rome on Wednesday convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal gone bad, sentencing th...

One of Elders lawyers, Renato Borzone, called the verdicts “a disgrace for Italy.” A lawyer for Natale-Hjorth, Fabio Alonzi, said he was speechless, just as his client was. Natale-Hjorth was “completely shocked, he kept telling me he did not understand.” In the courtroom for Natale-Hjorth, who has Italian citizenship as well as U.S. citizenship, were his father and uncle, who lives in Italy. Cerciello Rega had recently returned from a honeymoon when he was assigned along with partner, ...