{"id":243365,"date":"2026-04-23T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:24:08","slug":"18-year-old-arrested-after-attacking-women-with-table-knife-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243365\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old arrested after attacking women with table knife: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A man has been arrested after attacking two women in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> with a table knife.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/sppd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg Police Department<\/a>, 18-year-old Rodrigo Romero attacked two women Wednesday night in the downtown area of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">SPPD said the two women were walking in front of the open-air post office on 4th Street North when Rodrigo came at them with the knife.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">When the attack happened, officers said bystanders detained the suspect and called law enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rodrigo.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">One woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries to her head. While the second victim did not suffer any injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Romero was arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">SPPD said Romero and the victims were not known to each other.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It is unclear why Romero attacked the woman, or where Romero got ahold of the knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/sppd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A man has been arrested after attacking two women in downtown St. Petersburg with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1536,1157,24834,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-243365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-pinellas","tag-sppd","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243365","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=243365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}