Italy’s highest court orders retrial of two Americans convicted of police murder

Finnegan Lee Elder, 23, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 22, were found guilty of stabbing plainclothes officer to death in 2019

Italy’s highest court has ordered a retrial for two American citizens convicted in the slaying of an Italian police officer during a sting operation gone wrong.

The court of cassation late on Wednesday threw out the guilty verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, now 23, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 22, both convicted in the stabbing death of the 35-year-old carabiniere during a plainclothes operation in July 2019 while the Americans, teens at the time, were on vacation in Rome.