An American student who studies at John Cabot University, Rome, was stabbed 25 times by his roommate after a night of wild Halloween partying.
According to the San Giovanni hospital, the victim is in the intensive care unit, but it refused to indulge in further details.
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."
British Tabloid Daily Mail reports the victim is New Jersey-born 19-year-old Fabio Malpeso, and the attacker is one Reid Alexander Schepis, who also attends John Cabot University.
Schepis has been arrested and his attorney Vincenzo Comi has requested the court to consider him placing in-house arrest which will be taken up by the court sooner. Currently he is in police custody while they are probing the case.
Comi said that Schepis told the judge that he 'did not remember anything of the episode.'
"As he spoke of the events leading up to the tragedy he was crying desperately and sobbing throughout," Comi said to NBC News.
"He kept saying how sorry he was. Every time Fabio's name was mentioned he would break down. He just couldn't explain the events."
According to Comi, the victim and Schepis, along with two other men, went to a club where they were 'drinking alcohol, smoking hashish and taking what he was told was ecstasy.'
Even the police believe 'drug- and alcohol-related delirium' might have had a role in the episode.
According to Daily Mail, a third man named Andrea Renaldi was also injured during the attack trying to defend Malpeso. Renaldi is reportedly the boyfriend of Fabio's sister Federica.
Also, Malpeso and Schepis were not only roommates, but also best friends for a long time, and the families know each other very well.
John Cabot University, which, apart from awarding four-year-degrees, conducts study-abroad programs for other universities such as Michigan State and Alabama University, released a statement concerning the incident:
"You may be reading in the press or on social media rumors which do not accurately reflect the event. As a community, we should remind ourselves that the reporting of events such as these can often be exaggerated, especially in the early hours."
"I trust you will all join me in sending our prayers to the victim's family for their son's full recovery as well as to the family of the alleged attacker, who is likely shattered by this tragic event," wrote Franco Pavoncello, the president of the university.
