{"id":243295,"date":"2026-04-23T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:24:09","slug":"18-year-old-arrested-for-attacking-2-women-with-knife-in-downtown-st-pete-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243295\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old arrested for attacking 2 women with knife in downtown St. Pete, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers said the two women were walking in front of a U.S. Postal Service when the suspect came at them with a table knife.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 An 18-year-old man is behind bars after he attacked two women in downtown St. Pete with a table knife, police say.<\/p>\n<p>This happened after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at the U.S. Postal Service on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/United+States+Postal+Service\/@27.7718084,-82.6388316,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x88c2e183160139c1:0xc125f4c134e56f24!8m2!3d27.7718084!4d-82.6388316!16s%252Fg%252F11bc64w4fx?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%253D%253D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">76 4th Street North<\/a>. St. Pete PD says the women were walking in front of the post office when Rodrigo Romero attacked them with the knife.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say one woman had a non-life-threatening injury to her head, while the other had no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police clarified that the women and Romero do not know each other.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses in the area called law enforcement and detained Romero until officers arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Romero was arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers said the two women were walking in front of a U.S. Postal Service when the suspect came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-243295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}