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2 Bay Area men found guilty of killing Italian police officer FacebookTwitterEmail In this combo photo released by Italian Carabinieri, Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth, right, and Finnegan Lee Elder, sit in their hotel room in Rome. They were found guilty of killing an Italian police officer in 2019 on Wednesday.Italian Carabinieri via Associated Press A pair of high school friends from the Bay Area were found guilty Wednesday of stabbing an Italian police officer to death after a botched drug deal during a 2019 vacation in Rome. A jury found Finnegan Lee Elder, 21. and his friend Gabriel Chr...

"His integrity was defended," Rosa Maria Esilio said outside the courtroom, between sobs. "He was everyone's son, everyone's Carabinieri. He was a marvelous husband, he was a marvelous man, a servant of the state who merited respect and honor." The defendants were led immediately out of the courtroom after the verdicts were read. As Elder was being walked out, his father, Ethan Elder, called out, "Finnegan, I love you." Both of his parents looked stunned. Elder's lawyer, Renato Borzone, called the verdict against his client "a disgrace for Italy." Natale-Hjorth's lawyer, Fabio Alonzi, said he...

Two Americans sentenced to Italian prison for life after Roman police officer stabbed to death in ‘drug deal gone bad’ Updated 10:26 AM; Today 10:26 AM Finnegan Lee Elder, left, crosses his fingers as he talks with his parents Ethan and Leah Elder, before a jury began deliberating the fates of Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, on 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. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP Facebook Share ROME (AP) �...

2 US men sentenced to life in prison for killing Italian police officer Updated 6:42 AM; Today 6:42 AM 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.AP Photo/Gregorio Borg...

'They are not mafia bosses who kill innocent people': Families of two California students sentenced to life for stabbing to death Italian cop slam Italian justice system Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, were convicted by a jury in Rome on Wednesday over the  murder of Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35 Elder stabbed Rega 11 times with a 7-inch Rambo knife on July 26, 2019 after a drug deal went awry   Natale-Hjorth, whom Elder knew from high school in Mill Valley, California, helped hide the knife   Elder family spokesman Craig Peters blasted the jury for hand...