{"id":737910,"date":"2026-04-19T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/737910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:47:11","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-deadly-stabbing-at-north-phoenix-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/737910\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after deadly stabbing at north Phoenix apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Phoenix police arrested a suspect in connection with a deadly stabbing that happened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/04\/10\/police-searching-suspect-after-deadly-stabbing-north-phoenix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/04\/10\/police-searching-suspect-after-deadly-stabbing-north-phoenix\/\">earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Romano Smith, 36, was taken into custody Friday and booked into jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As the investigation unfolded, police said they determined that Smith was the suspect in 32-year-old Steven Martin Salas\u2019 death. Phoenix police said Smith is facing one count of second-degree murder. His bond was set at $1 million cash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The murder happened at an apartment complex in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/bd8w6mC8bAfhC4st5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/bd8w6mC8bAfhC4st5\" target=\"_blank\">28th Drive and Cactus Road<\/a>, just west of Interstate 17, on the afternoon of April 8. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers arrived at the complex, they found Salas with obvious signs of trauma. He was rushed to the hospital, where he later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Preliminary information suggests that Smith and Salas were in a fight before Salas was hurt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The case remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Phoenix police arrested a suspect in connection with a deadly stabbing that happened earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":737911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[304684,304685,5229,5643,1587,7182,66881,304686,304683,1589,9497,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-737910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-32-year-old-steven-martin-salas","tag-36-year-old-romano-smith","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-deadly-stabbing","tag-north-phoenix-fight-turns-deadly","tag-north-phoenix-stabbing","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-crime","tag-phoenix-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116429091350779829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}