{"id":243873,"date":"2026-04-23T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:15:12","slug":"18-year-old-arrested-after-attacking-women-with-table-knife-sppd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243873\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old arrested after attacking women with table knife: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An 18-year-old was arrested Wednesday night following an attack in downtown St. Pete, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say Rodrigo Romero attacked two women with a table knife and was detained by bystanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rodrigo Romero was arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A man has been arrested after attacking two women in downtown <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:St. Petersburg;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">St. Petersburg<\/a> with a table knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/sppd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:St. Petersburg Police Department;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When the attack happened, officers said bystanders detained the suspect and called law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a94692517fe4dc5afc98ff05804dd9f3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries to her head. While the second victim did not suffer any injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Romero was arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SPPD said Romero and the victims were not known to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is unclear why Romero attacked the woman, or where Romero got ahold of the knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article was written using information from the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief An 18-year-old was arrested Wednesday night following an attack in downtown St. Pete, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[107341,24834,202,204,203,199,201,200,107343],"class_list":["post-243873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-rodrigo-romero","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-table-knife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243873","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=243873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}