Parents of Boy Murdered in Italy Are Now Expecting Twins

BODEGA BAY, Calif. —  The parents of a 7-year-old boy whose slaying in Italy triggered an upsurge in organ donors there are expecting twins in early June, the boy’s father said Friday.

“The house has seemed empty without Nicholas, and although his loss will never be made up, it will have young sounds in it and that will be nice,” said Reginald Green from his home 50 miles north of San Francisco.

Reginald and Maggie Green also have a 6-year-old daughter, Eleanor, and Green said the infants will be important to her.

“It will make a big difference to Eleanor,” he said. “Life is not so joyous as it was with an imaginative big brother.”

Nicholas Green was shot Sept. 29, 1994, when bandits opened fire on the car he was riding in near Calabria during a family vacation. He died two days later.

A decision by the parents to donate the youngster’s organs focused attention on the practice in a nation that had one of the lowest rates of organ donation in the West.