2 American Teens Jailed in Italy in Policeman’s Killing

2 American Teens Jailed in Italy in Policeman’s Killing
Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth (R) and Finnegan Lee Elder, sit in their hotel room in Rome, Italy. Italian Carabinieri via AP
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ROME—Two American teenagers who were classmates at a California high school spent a second night in a Rome jail on July 27 after they were interrogated for hours about their alleged roles in the murder of an Italian policeman.

Investigators contended in written statements Saturday that the pair had confessed to their roles in the grisly slaying. Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, a member of the storied Carabinieri paramilitary corps, was stabbed eight times, allegedly by one of the teens, leaving him bleeding on a street close to the teens’ upscale hotel near Rome’s Tiber River.