police: Rega was stabbed eight times as he attempted to recover a stolen backpack from the teens, police say, according to CNN. Elder's family sent a statement to CNN through their attorney Craig Peters, after visiting him in prison Friday. Father of US teen accused of killing Italian police officer hopes video will show 'what actually happened' Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, was arrested in Rome in July alongside 18-year-old Gabriel Natale Hjorth, on suspicion of murdering Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega. Finn is trying to stay hopeful but has suffered from severe depression since the incident. The family hopes that the truth will come out soon, so that everyone involved can start the healing process, it continued. While in prison he has seen the way the media has portrayed him and the circumstances of the case & it has been difficult to hear the facts unfairly misrepresented, the statement read.
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