A newlywed Italian police officer who authorities allege was stabbed repeatedly and killed in a confrontation with two American teenagers in Rome is set to be mourned on Monday at a funeral in the same church where he was married a little over a month ago.
The slaying of Deputy Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, a member of the famed Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police force, has sent shock waves from Italy to Northern California, where the two suspects, Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, are from.
"He used to make pilgrimages to Lourdes and Loreto to help the suffering people every week," said Ottaviani, referring to two major Catholic pilgrimage sites."Without telling anyone, he volunteered. Not only does a brave Carabinieri die, but a great man." Elder and Natale-Hjorth, both graduates of Tamalpais High School in the San Francisco suburb of Mill Valley, were allegedly trying to buy drugs before the slaying, but were sold a fake substance, a police spokesman told ABC News.
The suspects were captured on surveillance video running from the scene with the stolen backpack, police said. They were tracked down at their hotel near Rome's Tiber River, police added. Gargaro said the officer who blindfolded the suspect made a"mistake" and that an investigation of the incident has been launched.
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