{"id":5375,"date":"2026-09-28T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/man-charged-in-south-st-louis-knife-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:02:05","slug":"man-charged-in-south-st-louis-knife-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/man-charged-in-south-st-louis-knife-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged in South St. Louis Knife Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 28, 2026 (STL.News) A 27-year-old St. Louis man faces two felony charges after prosecutors allege he approached a woman in South St. Louis, pulled a knife, and attempted to strike her before pushing her to the ground and punching her during a confrontation captured on surveillance video. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney\u2019s Office charged Jordon Swope, 27, of St. Louis, with one count of first-degree assault and one count of armed criminal action in connection with the Friday, Sept. 25 incident. The alleged attack occurred in the 3900 block of Hampton Avenue, according to<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/man-charged-in-south-st-louis-knife-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 28, 2026 (STL.News) A 27-year-old St. Louis man faces two felony charges after prosecutors allege he approached a woman in South St. Louis, pulled a knife, and attempted to strike her before pushing her to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5377,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}