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Buffalo man sentenced to prison in connection to fatal stabbing in Cheektowaga

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Erie County District Attorney's Office announced that 28-year-old Jaquan Combs was sentenced in State Supreme Court to 15 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision.

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The district attorney's office said on June 8, 2022, Combs stabbed 21-year-old Bryce Hill in the neck with a knife during an argument in a parking lot on Harlem Road near Wayne Terrace. Hill died at the scene and Combs was arrested a short time later.

Combs pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter in January.