{"id":9978,"date":"2025-06-24T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9978\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:59:13","slug":"man-gets-life-in-prison-for-triple-killings-at-phoenix-apartment-that-was-set-on-fire-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9978\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets life in prison for triple killings at Phoenix apartment that was set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Prosecutors say Christman had gone to the apartment in Phoenix\u2019s Ahwatukee area to get drugs and steal money.<\/p>\n

R.J. Parker, an attorney representing Christman, didn\u2019t return a phone call from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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

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

Authorities say the victims likely fought back during the violent attacks and that Christman had cuts on his hands when he was 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…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,10328,5643,1587,11029,4219,10407,168,4216,57,4221,4228,362,10329,1589,2938,10332,11028,8156,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-9978","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-az-state-wire","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-criminal-punishment","15":"tag-domestic-news","16":"tag-fires","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-homicide","19":"tag-indictments","20":"tag-legal-proceedings","21":"tag-merissa-honeycutt","22":"tag-phoenix","23":"tag-prisons","24":"tag-samuel-lott","25":"tag-scott-christman","26":"tag-theft","27":"tag-u-s-news","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114736815375981967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978","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=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}