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2 American Teens Allegedly Kill Police Officer In Rome

colliemom4 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:41:03 GMT

Has anyone seen or read anything about this story? I saw it on the news several days or so ago.

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colliemom4 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:43:22 GMT

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-murder-american-teens-finnegan-lee-elder-gabriel-christian-natale-hjorth-confess-police-rome-2019-07-29/

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Mj12 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:50:56 GMT

I heard it briefly on the news this morning. Absolutely awful. The police officer just returned from his honeymoon, I thought I heard.

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KingstonsMom — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:51:19 GMT

@colliemom4

It wasn't "alledgedly", they confessed (after blaming each other at first) and there was another police officer there and other witnesses when the officer was stabbed.

The police found their clothes and the large knife that was used in the boys hotel room, while they were trying to take off for the airport.

CCTV footage also showed them running from the crime scene to their hotel room around the corner.

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KingstonsMom — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:52:54 GMT

@Mj12 wrote:
I heard it briefly on the news this morning. Absolutely awful. The police officer just returned from his honeymoon, I thought I heard.

@Mj12

Yes, he was just married 2 weeks ago, so sad.

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colliemom4 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:54:55 GMT

I found the entire story incredibly sad. I didn't know they confessed.

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suzyQ3 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:22:33 GMT

Two very Ugly Americans.

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KingstonsMom — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:31:22 GMT

@suzyQ3

According to news articles they were from wealthy families and they had a major sense of entitlement.

Neighbors said they would do drugs and get drunk and throw up in their neighbor's yards and generally raise he!!.

They don't have the death penalty there, but the government has said they'll seek a life sentence of hard labor.

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SXMGirl — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:37:13 GMT

These two young men will have many years to rethink such a horrible decision. I feel very sad for the police officer's family, and especially his wife, who must be devastated. The teens' days of entitlement are definitely over.

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KingstonsMom — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:47:29 GMT

One teen on the left holding Gucci bags, the slain policeman on his wedding day 2 weeks ago in the center and the teen who actually did the stabbing on the right (blindfolded).

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Sweetbay magnolia — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:07:22 GMT

It was over a drug deal.

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KingstonsMom — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:43:31 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia wrote:
It was over a drug deal.

@Sweetbay magnolia

Just to clarify, the cops were not involved in a drug deal, the teens were.

The boys had bought what they thought was cocaine, but it turned out to be crushed aspirin.

They went looking for the man who sold it to them, couldn' find him, but found the dealers friend and took his backpack for their money back and a gram of cocaine.

Instead of paying the ransom, the man called police, who sent 2 officers to investigate the theft of his bag and the ransom demand.

When the police confronted the teens, the stabbing occurred.

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lovesrecess — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:24:32 GMT

Probably more to the story than we will know; the photo of one boy blindfolded in the police station was appalling, and the Italian police quickly admitted it was illegal to do so. They confessed, but hard to know yet the circumstances of that. They say they have the entire encounter on video, so that may seal their fate. Committing a crime in a foreign country never ends well. Doubtful even a high-priced attorney will be able to help them out of this.

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Wsmom — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:20:24 GMT

@lovesrecess wrote:
Probably more to the story than we will know; the photo of one boy blindfolded in the police station was appalling, and the Italian police quickly admitted it was illegal to do so. They confessed, but hard to know yet the circumstances of that. They say they have the entire encounter on video, so that may seal their fate. Committing a crime in a foreign country never ends well. Doubtful even a high-priced attorney will be able to help them out of this.

it wil be interesting to hear the reasoning for the blindfolding.

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sidsmom — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:32:28 GMT

I agree...there’s probably lots more to the story than being released.

The action of stabbing is unusual.

When the form of killing is done within the victim’s personal space

(think stabbing, strangulation, cutting, etc)

that typically means the killer knew his/her victim.

And to be stabbed 8 times?

Seems overkill..like there was a personal grudge.

My gut says we’ll never know the real story.

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suzyQ3 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:43:47 GMT

Who knows? OTOH, often a story is just a story -- no hidden meanings or conspiracies involved.

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shoekitty — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:07:43 GMT

I think it started out to be something to do with drugs. They had bought cocaine, and received crished asprin. The went out to demand money. They said the police were in plains clothes and they were afraid. Lame story

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ROMARY — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:40:56 GMT

I have a feeling that when they said 'hard labor', they meant it.

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esmerelda — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:56:43 GMT

As Italy doesn't have the death penalty, I hope they rot in prison.

@shoekitty Agreed, lame story. The police identified themselves before the stabbing. The entitled little brats were extorting the drug dealer (?)...in addition to being involved in drugs and theft...so of course they were afraid when confronted by cops.

Anxiously awaiting news of who raised these murderers.

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jellyBEAN — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:55:12 GMT

I'm not appalled the (alleged) murderer was blindfolded. So what? The person murdered will never see again. Hopefully if found guilty for their crimes they will both rot in jail the rest of their long lives.