Buffalo Man Pleads Guilty for Fatally Stabbing Victim During Argument in Cheektowaga Parking Lot

Modified: January 31, 2023 12:36pm

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1/31/2023

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 27-year-old Jaquan Combs of Buffalo pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon before State Supreme Court Justice Deborah A. Haendiges to one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree (Class “B” violent felony).

On Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at approximately 2:00 p.m., the defendant stabbed the victim in the neck with a knife during an argument in a parking lot on Harlem Road near Wayne Terrace in the Town of Cheektowaga. The victim, 21-year-old Bryce Hill, died at the scene. The defendant was arrested nearby a short time later.

Combs faces a maximum of 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. He remains held without bail.

DA Flynn commends the Cheektowaga Police Department for their work in this investigation.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Rachel Kranitz McPhee of the Special Victims/Domestic Violence Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Eugene T. Partridge, III of the Homicide Unit.