Wikipedia:Murder of Mario Cerciello Rega

The murder of Mario Cerciello Rega, a police officer in Italy, occurred on July 26, 2019, in Rome.

Vice Brigadier Rega, age 35, was a member of the Carabinieri, the Italian military police force. He was stabbed to death as he investigated a drug deal gone wrong. In 2021, two American students from California were found guilty of the murder. Finnegan Lee Elder, age 19 at the time of the murder, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, age 18, were both sentenced to life in prison.