Moms of Americans jailed in Italian police slaying testify
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} The mother of a young man from California on trial in Rome in the fatal stabbing of an Italian police office testified Thursday that her son had struggled with depression and a year before the slaying jumped from a pier near the Golden Gate Bridge in an attempt to kill himself. Finnegan Lee Elder and fellow Californian Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, both now 20, are being tried for the slaying of Carabiniere Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega. After the young men's second night together in the Rome hotel, Elder said, she received a video call from her son, although someone else was holding the phone.
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