[UPDATE 11:28 a.m.: ‘Two Possibly Involved Located and Detained’] Fatal Shooting in Alderpoint Last Night; Suspects Believed to Have Crashed on Hwy 36
![Law enforcement and their vehicles alongside Hwy 36 this morning near where a second suspect was seen. [Photo provided by a reader]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Officers-and-vehicles.jpg)
Law enforcement and their vehicles alongside Hwy 36 this morning near where a second suspect was seen. [Photo provided by Wes Robelen]
Last night, a fatal shooting occurred in Alderpoint, a small rural town in Southern Humboldt County. Suspects in the shooting reportedly fled the incident.
According to Samantha Karges, spokesperson for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department, “The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is in the Alderpoint area conducting a death investigation after an individual was found deceased outside of a residence with a possible gunshot wound.”
She added, “Numerous individuals are detained at this point and it is an active investigation.”
![Law enforcement and community members gathered near the scene of the crime. [Photo from Lauren Schmitt of Kmud]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Alderpoint.jpg)
Law enforcement and community members gathered near the scene of the crime. [Photo from Lauren Schmitt of KMUD]
According to traffic on the scanner, a vehicle believed to contain two suspects, a white Ford Explorer, crashed on Hwy 36 about 5:30 this morning.
A white Ford Explorer that was in the crash being hauled off by Clydes Towing. [Photo provided by Wes Robelen]
At approximately 9:20 a.m., a man fitting that description was spotted walking at mile marker 23 on Hwy 36. Both CHP officers and HCSO deputies responded to the scene. We have not been able to determine whether someone was detained at that point.
At 9:34 a.m. a reader, Wes Robelen, was traveling the area and took the top photo of Humboldt County Sheriff and CHP vehicles around mile marker 23 on Hwy 36.
This situation is still ongoing and information is being reported as we gather it. However, some of the statements coming from witnesses and initial official reports could be wrong. We will do our best to get the facts but, in the case that something is inaccurate, we will update with correct information as soon as we can.
UPDATE 11:28 a.m.: The HCSO says, “The HCSO is conducting a death investigation on the 100 bl of 6th St in Alderpoint after an adult male victim was located deceased outside a residence with a suspected gunshot wound. Two possibly involved individuals have been located and detained.”
UPDATE: 29-Year-Old Arrested for Murder in Connection With Today’s Shooting in Alderpoint
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That’s getting TOO Close for comfort, only a couple of miles above me!!!
I’m confused. How does an auto accident on 36 connect with a shooting in Alderpoint?
Um…. Did you read the headline? Or any part of the story? ?
Prettyy obvious u shoot someone in alderpoint and take ap rd to 36 , my child can put that together ….
Alderpoint road hits 36 at Bridgeville
Not if you go out to zenia and connect on van duzen Rd in mad river. Most likely a robbery gone bad and they drove out and back to blocksburg where they always drop their stolen cars.
Sounds like the suspects may have barrelled up Alderpoint Road and continued down 36.
Most likely the suspect left droving out AP rd. Which connects to 36 and then wrecked on 36?
Vehicle description over the scanner
Alderpoint road is right across the bridge from Bridgeville!!!
Not exactly. Bridgeville is about 30 miles north on the AP road. Rt 36 is at Bridgeville
I was talking about from the Bridgeville side which I’m on!!! ;oD
Then what is the name of the road that turns south on 36 at Bridgeville and goes to Alderpoint and beyond?
Check a map. You are correct. Alderpoint ends (or begins) at about Bridgeville and heads over to Alderpoint, then Blocksburg, and finally Garberville… great Sunday drive in the fall.
Vanduzen Rd hits zenia mt. Bluffs Rd to ap Rd.
Your dumb
Love it
Classic comment! In just two words you have demonstrated your intelligence for all to see. Well played!
How do you find the time to respond whilst wetting the beak on hand paid depositions?
I thought the road to kneeland was across the bridge? And blocksburg was the other way.. ft.sew side?
I appear to be the only local on this page?
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Going up 36 to Bridgeville in the “old days”, you’d turn right on the old bridge, cross it and either head “straight across” to the road that would take you down to Blocksburg, Alderpoint, etc. Or go left and continue up 36, where yeah, you could take Vanduzen, etc down to Zenia, but that seems a bit of a round about way to get to AP.
On the other hand that same intersection in beautiful downtown Bridgeville, if you turn left you head towards Kneeland (possibly my most favorite drive in the world).
The new bridge has altered it somewhat, but the road that you turn right on across from the old bridge will take you to Alderpoint (where this murder happened.) I looked on Google and amazingly, it’s called Alderpoint Road.
Meh, I was thinking they had crashed west of the junction. Was it further up 36?
Sounds like it.
I’m getting old lol. I pictured it perfectly the way you wrote it.
It’s not confusing…
Shooter had a high powered scope, maybe? (This can’t be “our,” Kym, can it?)
All the evidence points to a low powered scope.
I am so sorry to the parents of all parties involved. I remember you all very well. My heart breaks for each one of you.
Makes me sick, fuckin cowards. This is what happens when a [edit]grower brings their drug addict workers here from the city and then at the end of the year dumps them in our little town and they never leave, you know who you are and you are responsible for this! I hope it haunts you for the rest of your life!
Time to take back our town
Spot on and time to take back our nation…
Let’s keep politics out of this, okay?
Good luck with country Joe on that one. Pretty sure they they are a Russian troll or something similar
I didn’t interject politics into the conversation but you don’t care for any opposition.
I read that with a Russian accent and it made better sense…
You tell them marcyANN
Why do they leave the bodies just lying around when they waste someone? They had a car and it looks like 2 guys at least were involved so they didn
t lack for manpower or transportation. They could have taken the body somewhere, dragged it a few hundred feet off into the woods and buried it. 2 or 3 hours work with a mattock and shovel, a little care in backfilling and its very unlikely it would ever be found. Perhaps these people don`t plan ahead or think further than their next hit of meth. Probably a good thing……They don’t want blood in the car, DNA…what was it over is what I’d like to know
Lingley, I have ABSOLUTLY no information what so ever about this incident but I bet you that with 99.9% accuracy it has to do with dope some how.
Man, as another commenter recently utilized the phrase comedy gold! This thread here is comedy gold.
Alderpoint don’t disappoint!
you know nothing about what happened and your comment is a joke!
Wow, a local young man has lost his life and y’all think it’s a joke . Sure hope you don’t have to get a call like that some day .
He’s in a better place, this place sucks
Apologize. No disrespect to the deceased or family. But the morons comments here just prove why AP has been the butt of jokes from the inner triangle for years. Y’all should have gotten out
Most comments are not from the area!
None of the people who have commented seem to know where Alderpoint is or where Alderpoint road begins or ends. Blocksburg is obviously a town no commentator has been to either.
Someone’s child has been taken from them. A son. A brother. A grandchild. A cousin. A nephew. A friend of so many. You know nothing about AP, clearly. Anything other than condolences, frankly, is despicable and unacceptable. And the fact that you don’t know any better says everything about you, and that you haven’t the heart, love, and integrity of the people that are so profoundly heartbroken. Shame on you, any of you with your callous speculation. It could be logically speculated that you could never know the love and beauty that was lost. So much love. We should all be so lucky to have such an amazing family.
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Thoughts and prayers to this young man’s family my son was good friends with him .
Rest In Peace to the person who was shot. My brother used to work with him and I respect him helping my brother back in the day.
Can someone tell me the name of the victim?