Edgecomb being held at the Milwaukee County jail on a $255K cash bail with a hold order for felony murder in connection with the September homicide of local immigration attorney Cleereman.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
April 7, 2021
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Tuesday, during a preliminary Milwaukee County Court hearing on YouTube virtual, Theodore Malcolm Edgecomb, 31, entered a not guilty plead after a judge found probable cause to proceed with the homicide case of immigration attorney Jason T. Cleereman, 54, who Edgecomb is charged with committing, according to the criminal complaint.
Edgecomb remained on the run since September, but State Police in Kentucky arrested Edgecomb on March 4, 2021 for a misdemeanor charge of OWI (.08), speeding over 12 miles the speed limit, giving officer false identifying information, possession of marijuana, open bottle of alcoholic beverage in vehicle and for a felony fugitive warrant from Wisconsin in connection with the September 22, 2020 murder of local immigration attorney Cleereman in Milwaukee.
Edgecomb was extradited to Wisconsin to face a felony count for a homicide charge.
On October 2, 2020, Edgecomb, was charged in Wisconsin with one felony count for 1st-degree reckless homicide, including use of a dangerous weapon, one felony count for bail jumping and one misdemeanor count for bail jumping in connection with the September 2020 homicide of Cleereman, an immigration and divorce attorney who was fatally shot by Edgecomb in an apparent road rage incident at E. Brady St. and N. Holton St., according to Milwaukee police.
If convicted on all counts in Wisconsin, Edgecomb is facing up to 60 years in prison on the first homicide felony count, up to 6 years in prison and $10,000 in fines on the second felony count and up to 9 months and $10,000 in fines for the third misdemeanor count.
Cleereman was the passenger of a vehicle whose wife was the driver and she witnessed the shooting.
Cleereman practiced law for 22 years and was the former Chairman of the Southside Organizing Center (SOC) and an active Board member, according to SOC.
According to the criminal complaint, Edgecomb was being sought by Milwaukee police and a felony warrant was issued for his arrest in October.
Cleereman's wife told police that Edgecomb was riding his bicycle Westbound on the Eastbound side of the street as she was headed East and almost struck him. Cleereman reacted and made a comment.
While stopped at the corner, Edgecomb caught up with the victims and he got close and asked Cleereman, if he had said something about him and then struck Cleereman through the open vehicle window. Cleereman got out of the vehicle and confronted Edgecomb as he took out a gun and fired at Cleereman fatally striking him in the head. Cleereman's wife attempted to warn her husband that Edgecomb had a gun, but Cleereman didn't hear his wife's warning and got killed.
Edgecomb remained on the run at the time, but his bicycle including a loaded an another unloaded 9mm magzines were recovered at his home. Milwaukee police followed a trail of security cameras in the area, which footage showed where Edgecomb was headed too after the homicide shooting.
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