(4 Aug 2019) The family of one of the two California teenagers held in the Rome slaying of a police officer is looking "forward to the truth coming out and our son coming home," an attorney for the family said Saturday.
"We feel the public has an incomplete account of the true version of these events," Craig Peters said.
Peters read the short statement in front of the home of Finnegan Elder's parents in San Francisco in which he said the family also expressed their condolences to Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega.
Peters, who spoke next to Elder's parents, did not take questions after making the statement.
"We continue to hold his family in our thoughts and pray for them at this difficult time," Peters said.
The statement came after Elder's father, Ethan, returned from visiting his jailed 19-year-old son in Rome.
Italian prosecutors say Finnegan Elder confessed to knifing Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega during a July 26 scuffle.
According to court documents, Elder said he thought a strange man was strangling him and he didn't know Cerciello Rega was a plainclothes police officer.
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