New Video Shows Attorney Jason Cleereman And His Wife Were The Aggressors Who Pursued Black Bicyclist After A E. Brady Street Rage Encounter Ending In Cleereman's Death

The Black suspect, Theodore Edgecomb claims that Cleereman and his wife pursued him after a street rage encounter and he felt that his life was in danger so, he fatally shot Cleereman in self-defense.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

December 8, 2021

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Theodore M. Edgecomb, 31, the alleged suspect who fatally shot immigtation attorney Jason T. Cleereman, 54, on September 22, 2020 after an E. Brady Street rage encounter is claiming that he shot Cleereman in self-defense. A new recently released video clearly shows that both Cleereman and his wife, Evanjelina Cleereman who was the driver pursued Edgecomb who was on his bicycle and riding away from them.

The video shows Cleereman get out of the vehicle and encountered Edgecomb. Edgecomb says that he feared for his life and that Cleereman yelled a racial slur and said that he wanted to kill Edgecomb. Cleereman apparently reached in his pocket during the encounter and Edgecomb believed that he was reaching for a weapon. Edgecomb then took out a handgun and fatally shot Cleereman in the head and fled from the scene. 

The police report mentioned that Cleereman had a folding knife in his pocket and that he was intoxicated at the time. Also, that inside the Cleereman's vehicle police also found open bottles of alcoholic beverages.

A witness claimed that Cleereman stood in a position to fight Edgecomb before he was shot.

It seems that Cleereman's wife, Evanjelina might not have been telling the whole story and the video that was recently released allegedly contradicts parts of her version of what actually happened.

Police haven't confirmed, if Evanjelina was also Intoxicated at the time when she was driving in September 2020.

Wisconsin court records show that, Edgecomb was free on bail for two cases, one in Waukesha County for carrying a concealed weapon (misdemeanor, 3/4/2020) and the other in Milwaukee County for one felony count of battery including a charge for domestic abuse (12/15/2019), which conditions of bail in both cases prohibited Edgecomb from possessing any weapons. 

Black Community activist Tony Lowe posted the recently released video on his Facebook account showing the Cleereman couple pursuing Edgecomb and wrote that Edgecomb shot Jason Cleereman on the Holton Bridge in Milwaukee in self-defense, which Edgecomb's lawyers contend in court records which detail a new narrative for a jury to consider in the deadly September 2020 encounter.

Documents filed by Edgecomb's lawyers in recent months claimed the criminal complaint against their client did not include critical information they believe supports their approach of an affirmative defense.

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.

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.