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Updated 7 hours ago 2 Americans Sentenced To Life Over 2019 Slaying Of Italian Police Officer Former San Francisco schoolmates Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth were found guilty of murder after a small-time drug deal in Rome went bad. FRANCES D'EMILIO ROME (AP) — 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 ...

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | 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 Natale-Hjorth, 20, former schoolmates from the San Francisco area, were each found guilty of murder a...

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 high school in Mill Valley, California, helped hide the knife  The defendants maintained that they ac...

Italy jury deliberates fate of two Bay Area men charged with police slaying By Frances D'Emilio article US citizen Gabriel Natale-Hjorth (C), who is being tried along with another US citizen on murder charges (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images) ROME - A jury in Rome on Wednesday began deliberating the fates of two young American men who are charged with killing an Italian police officer near the hotel where they were staying while on summer vacation in 2019. Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, were indicted on charges of homicide, attempted extortion, assault, re...

Marin classmates found guilty in murder of Italian police officer, given life sentences FacebookTwitterEmail Finnegan Lee Elder (right) and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth look on during a break in closing arguments in Rome on April 26, 2021. REMO CASILLI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, a pair of former Marin classmates who met up in Rome on vacation and became inextricably linked through the slaying of an Italian police officer, are guilty of murder, an Italian jury ruled Wednesday. They were both sentenced to life in prison. The jury consisted of presiding jud...