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American Tourists Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering Italian Police Officer

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A pair of San Francisco Bay Area friends who allegedly killed a police officer during a vacation in Italy won’t ever come back home.

On Wednesday, Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, were sentenced to life in prison by a Rome jury, who found the pair guilty of charges of homicide, attempted extortion, assault, resisting a public official, and carrying an attack-style knife without just cause in connection to the death of Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega.

According to the Associated Press, the then-teens were visiting Rome in 2019 when Elder stabbed the officer 11 times in a drug bust gone wrong before Natale-Hjorth helped hide the murder weapon in their hotel room.

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