Kansas Man Charged With Stabbing Choir Teacher in Unprovoked Park Attack

Kwan Noble Trezvant, 27, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after police say he stabbed choir teacher Jamie Trumpp, 38, at Two Trails Park in Olathe, Kansas, in an attack authorities described as "completely unprovoked." The two did not know each other.

Olathe Police responded at 12:06 p.m. near the 1000 block of North Ridgeview Road and found Trumpp suffering from stab wounds. The Johnson County District Attorney's Office alleged in its complaint that Trezvant cut Trumpp with a knife in an act of attempted first-degree murder, defined under Kansas statute as attempting to "unlawfully, feloniously, intentionally and with premeditation kill a human being." Trumpp, a music teacher at Indian Trail Middle School, was transported to a hospital and is expected to survive.

The attack unfolded on a busy spring break afternoon with children playing on the playground and families gathered under the park shelter. Mark Moore, a DS Bus Lines safety trainer who was training a new school bus driver and had pulled into the Two Trails Park lot off North Ridgeview, witnessed the suspect flee. "All of a sudden, I saw this gentleman walking away from the crowd at a fairly brisk pace. The further he went, the faster he started to run," Moore said. He watched the man disappear into a nearby neighborhood; neighbors later provided FOX4 video showing a man walking then running out of frame.

Moore radioed dispatch to call 911 and grabbed a first aid kit and body fluid cleanup kit. When he reached Trumpp's side, another woman had already pressed a towel to her neck to slow the bleeding. Moore, who noted the stakes of a neck wound plainly, said: "When it's in the neck, you've got your carotid artery and you've got your jugular vein. So there's some serious places there that could result in death." He believed the woman applying pressure may have been a nurse who happened to be at the park, calling her "the real hero." Other adults at the scene moved children away from the chaos. "They all circled the wagons, they stepped in, helped take care of the kids and all that. You like to see that in the community," Moore said.

Trezvant appeared in court the day after the attack, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 26. He is being held on a $500,000 bond.

His prior record includes a 2024 guilty plea to misdemeanor battery of a law enforcement officer, for which he was sentenced to nearly four months in jail. In 2020, he pleaded guilty to two additional misdemeanors, obstructing the legal process and possession of drug paraphernalia, and was released on time served.

Community members have since organized a meal train fundraiser for Trumpp's family, according to the Olathe Reporter. The Johnson County District Attorney's Office is prosecuting the case.