{"id":243334,"date":"2026-04-23T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243334\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:00:10","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-attacking-women-with-table-knife-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243334\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of attacking women with table knife: St. Pete police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 Authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man after a table knife attack in St. Pete on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said two women were walking in the downtown area in front of the open-air post office at 76 4th Street North, when Rodrigo Romero attacked them with a table knife.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries to her head, but the other woman was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders in the area helped to notify police, while detaining Romero until the arrival of officers, per SPPD.<\/p>\n<p>Romero faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p>The women and the suspect do not know each other, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ADAM.WALSER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Homeowner loses decade-long legal battle against St. Pete over unrecorded water pipelines<\/p>\n<p>An Odessa man lost his legal battle against the city of St. Petersburg today after a jury ruled that two massive water mains buried under his property can remain.<\/p>\n<p>Homeowner loses decade-long legal battle against St. Petersburg over unrecorded water pipelines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 Authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man after a table knife attack in St. Pete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[107333,7774,596,107032,202,204,203,3669,199,201,200,107334,5910,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-243334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-attempted-assault","9":"tag-attempted-murder","10":"tag-pinellas-county","11":"tag-pinellas-news","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-pete-police","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-table-knife-attack","20":"tag-tampa-bay-28","21":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","22":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243334","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=243334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}