By Praxilla Trabattoni, NBC News
ROME -- A 19-year-old American student allegedly stabbed by a friend after a night of partying in Italy?s capital is awake and talking, officials said Saturday.
The victim, New Jersey-born Fabio Malpeso, is "doing much better and is awake and has already spoken to his parents and sibling,? Police Chief Lorenzo Suraci told NBC News. ?Doctors are more confident on his recovery now."
Suraci said police hope to speak to Malpeso, who underwent surgery for stab wounds to his lungs and other parts of his body, when he recovers further.
Attorney Vincenzo Comi, who represents alleged assailant Alexander Reid, also said he was told Malpeso is improving.
?He is obviously still under observation but, he is awake and talking,? Comi told NBC News. ?He even asked about the situation and what is happening.?
Earlier: Italy police say?student stabs sleeping American friend while on drugs
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Alexander Schepis Reid is taken into custody Thursday after allegedly stabbing fellow student Fabio Malpeso in Rome, Italy.
Authorities earlier said the motive for the early Thursday attack in an apartment that overlooks Rome's famous Colosseum was unclear. However, detectives suspect "drug- and alcohol-related delirium" might be a factor.
Reid and Malpeso are both students at John Cabot University, an American college in Rome.
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Police said Reid, a resident of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy, appeared to have joint U.S. and Italian citizenship, but they were working to establish his nationalities.
After visiting Reid in jail on Friday, Comi said his client was "distraught and exhausted."
Comi said Reid?s mother was American and his father Italian, and as far as he was aware Reid had dual citizenship.
A third man, an Italian in his 30s named Andrea Rinaldi, suffered injuries to his arms and hands trying to defend Malpeso, and was also in the hospital, police said.
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Paolo Guiso, a judiciary police inspector who is leading the investigation, told NBC News Friday that Reid, Malpeso, Malpeso's sister Federica and her boyfriend, Rinaldi, had returned to the apartment after partying in a nightclub Wednesday night and early Thursday.
Malpeso had drunk alcohol, while Reid, Federica and Rinaldi had consumed "alcohol, hashish and ecstasy," Guiso said, explaining that all four had been tested for drugs and alcohol.
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