Here's what comes next for Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth.
FILE: Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, right, and Finnegan Lee Elder, from California, arrive in court for a hearing in Rome on Sept. 16, 2020.Two former Marin classmates, Finnegan Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, have won their appeal to get another trial in the killing of an Italian police officer in 2019.What happened that night in Rome in July 2019?
How July 26, 2019, unfolded depends on whom you talk to. Neither the prosecutors nor the defendants dispute that Elder and Natale-Hjorth tried to buy cocaine from a local dealer in Trastevere, a nightlife district in Rome. 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. In retaliation, they allegedly stole the man's backpack and demanded 100 euros and a gram of cocaine to get it back.
The informant arranged to meet back up with the Bay Area teens. At that meeting, around 2:30 a.m., two plainclothes police officers — Carabinieri Deputy Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega and Andrea Varriale — arrived. Here is where the stories vastly deviate. Police and prosecutors say the officers identified themselves as law enforcement and showed their badges but were attacked"immediately" by the teens. Lawyers for Elder and Natale-Hjorth say the officers did not identify themselves as such, and the fatal scuffle was an act of self-defense by Elder.
FILE: On May 5, 2021, Gabriel Natale-Hjorth is escorted by police at his trial on charges of murdering Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome."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," one lawyer for Elder told theThe pair were found in their hotel room several hours after the incident.
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