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Today,
a Humboldt County jury convicted 31-year-old Jake Henry Combs of
first degree murder for the January 6, 2022 killing of 25-year-old
Trevor John Earley of Alderpoint. Additionally, the jury found Combs
intentionally discharged a firearm, causing Earley’s death. Combs
faces 50 years to l
Deputy Public Defender Emery Welton, one of Jake Combs’ – who fatally shot 25-year-old Trevor Earley in Alderpoint in the wee hours of Jan. 6, 2022 – defense attorneys told the jury that his client acted in self-defense, but he considered voluntary manslaughter another reasonable conclusion. Deputy District Attorney Whitney Timm disagreed, asserting that Combs committed an unambiguous act of first-degree murder.
Zeb Humphrey described the day on Jan. 5, 2022 drinking and partying with his best friend Trevor Earley – the victim – and two other men when early the next morning, he discovered Earley on the ground facing upwards, a bullet wound in his temple. Humphrey was not present for the shooting, allegedly committed by Jake Combs after Earley was bitten by his large Cane Corso dog and threatened to kill it.
Deputy District Attorney Whitney Timm told the jury that they must convict Jake Combs of killing 25-year-old Trevor Earley, whose family and loved ones filled every available seat in the courtroom’s public gallery. Combs is accused of walking up to Earley and shooting him at point blank range in the temple with a semiautomatic handgun after allegedly hearing Earley say he was going to shoot his dog after being bitten in the nose.