Finnegan Lee Elder (R) and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth (L), the two men accused of the killing of an Italian Carabinieri police officer, attends a hearing during their trial in Rome, on March 1, 2021. In retaliation, they allegedly stole the man's backpack and demanded 100 euros and a gram of cocaine to get it back. Elder said his nephew had dealt with drug problems in high school and afterward. That’s how, well after midnight, Elder and Natale-Hjorth were on the streets of Rome, trying to get their money back. 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, The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning. But Elder described a scene in which he was defending himself against a person who had shown no ID and was trying to “strangle or choke me.” On the stand, Elder’s mother testified about receiving a video call from her son right after his arrest, in which he had called the situation “really, really bad.”, “They’re saying that I stabbed a cop,” she remembered him saying, while he was “crying and shaking.”. All across Europe, he’d carried a seven-inch combat knife — something he had purchased in California. Elder looked stunned when the verdict was read out on Wednesday night, May 5. According to him, they were not close friends, but instead a pair of former classmates who happened to be in Italy at the same time. Lawyers for the Americans say the officers did not identify themselves as such, and the fatal stabbing was an act of self defense by Elder. Finnegan Lee Elder listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Elder, who admitted to the stabbing, said he thought he was being jumped by a drug dealer who’d tackled him and pinned him down. More than 12 hours after deliberations began, the jury of two judges and six civilians delivered […] Americans Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 19, and Finnegan Elder, 20, stand trial for murdering an Italian police officer in July. Mario Cerciello Rega, 35 and fresh off his honeymoon, was stabbed to death. The case has attracted plenty of attention in Italy, in part because it is exceedingly rare for tourists to be charged with violent crimes. The informant arranged to meet back up with the Bay Area teens. She thought the same would be true for him, that being in a new environment and having to figure some things out on his own would be maturing for him. The trial of Finnegan Elder, now 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, is in its final stages. He’d met up in Rome with Natale-Hjorth, whom he knew from high school. Americans Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth convicted of killing police officer in Italy and sentenced to life in prison 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, … Like his acquaintance, Natale-Hjorth had been charged with homicide, based on his involvement in the events that led to the slaying. The trial began in February 2020, paused briefly during the early stages of the COVID lockdown, and has since resumed. I think he was very depressed and was hoping for the same thing.”. The first Court of Assizes of the Court of Rome sentenced the two twenty-year-old Americans after a council chamber. But instead, it was Cerciello Rega and his partner, Andrea Varriale, responding to the reported theft. A verdict is expected soon in the case of two Bay Area men who are accused of murdering a police officer in Rome two years ago. "He was there, he made a mistake, but he's not an assassin," Fabrizio Natale told Italian daily Corriere della Sera in August 2019. The issue in question was why he did not bring his service pistol to the scene; both officers were unarmed that night, according to court documents. A verdict is expected soon in the case of two Bay Area men who are accused of murdering a police officer in Rome two years ago. The pair were found in their hotel room several hours after the incident. There was a criminal investigation for a possible violation of defendant's rights, as well as an internal disciplinary probe. But it marks the conclusion of a lengthy initial trial that examined how a night that started with two Americans trying to buy drugs ended with an officer bleeding to death on the street, stabbed 11 times. They agreed to meet again. Varriale testified in court last year the police did identify themselves as such as they approached the Americans. The Chefman air fryer convinced me that air fryers are... Let's talk about getting a generator before your next... A keepsake book is the perfect sentimental Mother's Day gift, The best masks for people who wear glasses, Fabrizio Natale told Italian daily Corriere della Sera. In Italian courts, this is known as a "spontaneous declaration," and there is no examination or cross-examination by lawyers. On April 29, 2021, in Rome, Gabriel Natale-Hjorth (left) and co-defendant Finnegan Lee Elder sit during a break in their trial. Police say they found the murder weapon hidden above a ceiling panel in the room. Elder said his nephew had become “very paranoid, and the reasons for that I am not exactly sure of.” In testimony, the defendant’s mother also described mental health issues and said her son had attempted suicide one year before the killing. The Americans, as retribution, ran off with the middleman’s backpack, returning to the area of their hotel. Finnegan Lee Elder listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer in summer 2019, in Rome, May 5, 2021. … Ethan Elder, father of Finnegan Lee Elder, is hugged by his wife Leah as they attend the opening of the trial for the killing of Italian policeman Mario Cerciello Rega in … “I’ll never be able to forgive myself for this, and I don’t expect Mr. Mario Cerciello’s family to ever forgive me, although I truly hope one day they will,” he said. The officers arrived in plainclothes, without their weapons. Unbeknownst to them, the man was a Carabinieri informant; he then told police he'd been robbed. After the trial had begun, Finnegan Elder apologized in court for the killing and said he was “filled with remorse.”. They expected the middleman. The trial has dragged on for a year, facing many delays because of the pandemic. The pair, who met at Tamalpais High in Mill Valley, were on vacation in Italy in … “I think the hope was, on his parents’ part, that it would be a maturing experience for him,” the uncle said. Elder told the court Monday he brought a knife to the meeting because "it gave me a sense of protection.". At that meeting, around 2:30 a.m., two plainclothes police officers — Cerciello Rega and his partner Andrea Varriale — arrived. ROME — An Italian jury on Wednesday convicted two Americans of murder, with a punishment of life in prison, a decision that comes nearly two years after the men had been charged in the killing of an Italian police officer while on vacation in Rome. 1 of 3. In a phone interview this week before the verdict, Elder’s uncle, Sean Elder, said his nephew had been in Europe in the summer of 2019, traveling by himself first in Germany. Finnegan Lee Elder, now 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, received Italy’s harshest possible sentences after a full day of jury deliberation. The boys were drinking, partying and doing drugs all throughout the city. At a hearing Monday, Elder read from a handwritten statement for about an hour. 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. On the eve of a verdict in the case, 21-year-old Finnegan Elder of San Francisco appears to be accepting that he could face more time in prison, for stabbing an Italian police officer to death. "We are absolutely certain that the two boys — especially Finn, who doesn’t speak a word of Italian — had no idea that they were policemen," Renato Borzone, an Italian lawyer for Elder, told the New York Times. As soon as I felt his hands squeezing my neck, I instinctively brought out my knife and hit him three times in an effort to get him off me.”. Finnegan Lee Elder (L), one of the two men accused of the killing of an Italian police officer, attends a hearing in their trial on February 3, 2021 in Rome. Finnegan Lee Elder, a 19-year-old student, was on vacation with his buddy Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth in Italy. Elder stabbed Rega 11 times after a botched drug sting, the jury found, and Natale-Hjorth assisted in concealing the murder knife. Gabriel Natale-Hjorth (L) and Finnegan Lee Elder (R), the two men accused of the killing of an Italian police officer, arrive for a hearing in their trial on February 3, 2021 in Rome. Finnegan Elder, right, shows a crucifix to co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth before a jury began deliberating (Gregorio Borgia/AP) By Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press May 05 2021 10:56 AM A judge halted the trial in Rome for five weeks on Monday so the two American students Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth would not risk exposure to the deadly coronavirus. “His mother had gone to Rome in her early 20s and worked as an au pair. “I remember little of the next few moments except for feelings of shock and terror,” he said. The families are now back in Rome, bracing for the verdict. CTV World News, your source for the latest international breaking news and headlines, today's world breaking news from around the globe. Prosecutors said the Americans displayed “homicidal intent” when assaulting the officers. The trial of Finnegan Elder, now 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, is in its final stages. 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. There is no death penalty in Italy. Over the next week, the last bits of testimony and evidence will be heard by an Italian jury. Elder and Natale-Hjorth had started the evening of July 25, 2019, trying to score drugs in the lively Roman neighborhood of Trastevere. 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Rome's criminal court before the start of the trial of Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale Hjorth (Getty Images) Both the defendants have said that they didn’t know the Carabinieri paramilitary officer was a cop and claimed they acted in self-defense. They are both charged with murder, as well as attempted extortion (because of the alleged drug deal gone south) and resisting public officials. Finnegan Lee Elder, one of the two men accused of the killing of an Italian Carabinieri police officer, reads a statement during his trial in Rome on March 1, 2021. At this stage, I panicked and believed he wanted to kill me. The Americans face a life sentence if found guilty of murder. In addition, Varriale was put under investigation for "failure to carry out his duties," military prosecutors said in September 2019. But Cerciello Rega’s partner described the encounter differently and said the officers had shown the Americans their badges. The trial for two American tourists who allegedly confessed to stabbing a plain-clothes Italian police officer in Rome kicked off Wednesday.. Finnegan Lee Elder… Police and prosecutors say the officers identified themselves as law enforcement and showed their badges but were attacked "immediately" by the teens. Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, left, and Finnegan Lee Elder, both from the United States, listen to Prosecutor Maria Sabina Calabretta during a hearing in the trial where they are accused of slaying the Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, while on vacation in Italy in July 2019, in Rome, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Natale-Hjorth was born in Italy and moved to the United States as a boy; he holds dual citizenship and took trips to Italy each summer. He’d attended a year of community college in San Diego before coming to Europe. 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. The widow of the carabiniere: “Sentence will not give me back Mario, he died as a servant of the state, like a martyr. Katie Dowd is the SFGATE Managing Editor. Here is where the stories vastly deviate. Gregorio Borgia / AP An accomplice may also be charged with murder in Italy. There was a gasp in the Rome courtroom as the presiding judge, Marina Finiti, read the verdict. 21-year-old Finnegan Lee Elder was found guilty on multiple counts, and so was 20-year-old Gabriel Natale-Hjorth. As the legal proceedings wrap up, here's what you need to know about the headline-grabbing trial. Thanks to the judges”. Then-Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called his “broken life” a deep national wound. Even though Natale-Hjorth did not participate in the stabbing of Cerciello Rega, he is equally charged in the murder, per Italian law. The carabinieri officer, Mario Cerciello Rega, 35, had been a newlywed and was hailed as a hero after his death, honored with a state funeral. Both prosecutors and the defendants do not dispute that Elder and Natale-Hjorth tried to buy cocaine from a local dealer in Trastevere, a nightlife district in Rome. The pair, who met at Tamalpais High in Mill Valley, were on vacation in Italy in 2019 when they scuffled in the street with two Carabinieri officers. A jury is expected to decide on Wednesday or Thursday whether Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, are guilty of murder in the stabbing death of Mario Cerciello Rega in 2019. “I thought that it would be something that would help us enjoy the night, and from past experience, I thought the effect of the drug would make us feel better and give us some energy to walk around to get to bars and pubs,” Elder said in court this week. - Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are on trial over the killing of Mario Cerciello Rega, who was in plain clothes when he was slain in a night drug bust on July 26 2019. Elder and Natale-Hjorth are identified as being from San Francisco in court documents. 1 of 24 Finnegan Lee Elder listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Verdict soon in case of Marin friends accused of murdering Italian officer, GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images, ALBERTO PIZZOLI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images, SF tech CEO says he was fired due to LSD use at investor meeting. The verdict is almost certain to be appealed. Elder's father, Ethan Elder, met with his son last week just prior to the much-delayed trial resuming, and he gave a quote from Finnegan Elder to ABC 7. Are houses selling for $1M-plus over asking price the new normal? Finnegan Lee Elder listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. It was an experience that his family thought could help him. As the defendants were ushered out of the courtroom, Elder’s father called out, “Finnegan, I love you,” according to the Associated Press. How the night of July 26, 2019 unfolded depends on who you ask. The two young men accused in the July 2019 fatal stabbing of a police officer in Rome were found guilty of murder by a jury on Wednesday and given the harshest sentences possible. “I do remember, however, that I could feel his hands pressing on my chest and then on my neck with pressure, as if he were trying to strangle or choke me. Almost immediately after their arrest, photos surfaced of Natale-Hjorth blindfolded with a scarf and handcuffed. Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are on trial over the killing of Mario Cerciello Rega. On March 13, the prosecution will lay out its closing argument and ask the jury for convictions. The trial examined whether the two Americans, high school friends from California, knew whether Cerciello Rega and his partner were police officers during their late-night encounter. Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, one of the two men accused of the killing of an Italian Carabinieri police officer, attends a hearing during the trial in Rome, on March 1, 2021. During the trial, Varriale said that he and his partner had clearly identified themselves when they showed up on a dark street corner. The jury deliberated more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder… Rosa Maria Esilio, widow of slain Carabinieri military police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, looks on upon her arrival for a hearing in the trial of the two young US nationals who are accused of the killing in Rome, on March 1, 2021. Although it was initially reported the pair were good friends — they both graduated from Tamalpais High in Mill Valley in 2018 — Gabriel's father Fabrizio Natale walked that back a bit in an interview. They've been held at the Regina Coeli prison in Rome since 2019 and throughout the coronavirus pandemic. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, Italian jury convicts 2 Americans of murder, with a punishment of life in prison, in 2019 killing of police officer. The investigation into Varriale was "a formality," according to Italian media, but it has formed part of the defense of the San Francisco men, whose lawyers are arguing they thought they were being attacked by two strangers. Finnegan Lee Elder, now 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, received Italy’s harshest possible sentences after a full day of jury deliberation. On the eve of a verdict in the case, 21-year-old Finnegan Elder of San Francisco appears to be accepting that he could face more time in prison for stabbing this Italian police officer to death. Finnegan Lee Elder reacts as he learns he was found guilty of the 2019 murder of Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega on May 5, 2021 in Rome. Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, admitted to stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019 while out with his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20. There have been several investigations within the Carabinieri in the aftermath of Cerciello Rega's death. Cerciello Rega’s widow sobbed and hugged the slain officer’s brother. But they’d been swindled and received an over-the-counter pain medicine. According to police, Elder and Natale-Hjorth got upset when the man who showed up for the drug deal didn't give them the cocaine. 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. SFGate - A verdict is expected soon in the case of two Bay Area men who are accused of murdering a police officer in Rome two years ago. In court, Elder has not denied killing Rega, instead arguing it was a case of self defense not murder. Deputy Brig. The verdict is almost certain to be appealed.
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