{"id":9258,"date":"2025-06-23T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9258\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:37:12","slug":"man-gets-life-in-prison-for-triple-killings-at-phoenix-apartment-that-was-set-on-fire-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9258\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets life in prison for triple killings at Phoenix apartment that was set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 An Arizona man was sentenced Monday to life prison in the killings of three people at a Phoenix apartment that was set on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chase Scott Christman, 31, of Mesa had previously pleaded guilty to murder and robbery charges stemming from the July 2024 deaths of Merissa Honeycutt, 27; Anthony Frederickson Ceccarelli, 25; and Samuel Lott, 37.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors say Christman had gone to the apartment in Phoenix\u2019s Ahwatukee area to get drugs and steal money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">R.J. Parker, an attorney representing Christman, didn\u2019t return a phone call from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bodies were found by firefighters who responded to a blaze at the apartment. Authorities said the bodies and the apartment weren\u2019t significantly damaged in the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Neighbors told investigators they heard screaming coming from the apartment. Police say one victim was fatally stabbed, another was shot to death and another was both shot and stabbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities say the victims likely fought back during the violent attacks and that Christman had cuts on his hands when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/suspect-arrested-3-murders-ahwatukee-apartment-fire-7c488461f240b492cbeedca5711d6e76\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:arrested;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">arrested<\/a>. Prosecutors say blood found in the apartment was matched with Christman\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 An Arizona man was sentenced Monday to life prison in the killings of three people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,10328,5643,1587,10327,10330,10329,1589,10331,10332,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-9258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anthony-frederickson-ceccarelli","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-chase-scott-christman","13":"tag-christman","14":"tag-merissa-honeycutt","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-phoenix-apartment","17":"tag-samuel-lott","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114735313273196417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","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=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}