KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A homeless man upset about the alleged spray painting of a tent he was living in on a south Kansas City, Missouri, church’s property is charged with stabbing a church member Sunday.
Jackson County prosecutors charged Jarod Hill with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the attack outside Kansas City First Church of the Nazarene, 11811 State Line Road.
Hill told emergency response team members at the church his tent was on the property and had been spray painted, according to a court document.
He went upstairs in the church building and was given food.
Other emergency response team members looked at surveillance footage and saw it had not been spray painted, the court document states.
Hill called the team members liars and was told to leave or the police would be called.
He went outside but didn’t immediately leave the church property.
Instead, he asked for directions to a laundromat and also asked for a taxi.
While a member was looking up directions on his phone, Hill grabbed the member and placed him in a headlock, according to the court document.