Phoenix Man Charged in Tempe Attack

Stevens is alive, so the charge is attempted second-degree murder, and the judge has already said that count can change if he dies. What Goodrick told officers is evidence the state will use. It is not a plea, and the cash bond is not a conviction.

Samuel Goodrick, 21, of Phoenix, is charged with attempted second-degree murder, robbery, and theft of means of transportation. A judge set a $1.5 million cash-only bond and told him the charge can be raised if Chadwick Stevens dies.

Court documents say Goodrick attacked Stevens, a rideshare driver, early Friday in a parking lot near Priest Drive and Elliot Road in Tempe and took his black 2021 GMC Yukon. Officers found Stevens just before 6 a.m. He had a brainstem injury, broken facial bones, broken ribs, and a collapsed lung. Hospital staff told investigators he is in a medically induced coma and is not expected to survive. As of Tuesday evening he was still on life support. The charge has not been raised to murder.

Investigators found Goodrick's passport on the road near Interstate 10 and Elliot Road. Court paperwork says he left the Yukon around 12:30 p.m. on I-10 in New Mexico, then jumped naked into the bed of a family's pickup that was towing a trailer. He broke the rear window and got into the cab. The family forced him out near San Simon. Asked why police were there, he said, "Because I killed a guy."

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.