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The 23-year-old man shot in the leg in South Milwaukee is facing three felony bail jumping charges.
The 22-year-old woman who police say shot the man is not facing charges.
“She was not charged based on self-defense issues,” said South Milwaukee Police Chief Bill Jessup.
Theoplis McClain of Milwaukee was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with three counts of felony bail jumping, with domestic abuse assessments as a domestic abuse repeater and habitual criminality repeater, South Milwaukee Police said.
If convicted, McClain could face fines up to about $30,000 and decades behind bars, according to a criminal complaint.
The shooting occurred in the 1800 block of Rawson Avenue around 2:50 p.m., Nov. 2. At the time, Jessup called the shooting a “domestic incident” and said the man was treated for the wound and released.
According to the criminal complaint:
The 22-year-old woman was speaking with someone on the phone when she arrived at her apartment. That person told police she’d mentioned being afraid to go home because McClain could be waiting there.
The person on the call with the 22-year-old told police she heard the woman ask someone why they were at her house. She also heard a man, McClain, say he was there to get his things. The woman told him she would get his stuff and bring it down, but McClain seemed to get upset.
The person on the line said McClain and the woman began to “tussle” and she heard the 22-year-old tell him “don’t come close to me, don’t come close to me.”
Soon after, the caller said they heard McClain yell he was shot, and the phone cut off.
McClain admitted he was at the home of his ex-girlfriend and said either she or her new boyfriend shot him.
McClain has numerous open felony cases in Milwaukee County, including one for fleeing an officer and another for discharging a firearm at the woman involved in the South Milwaukee case. As part of these cases, he was not to have contact with her nor be within 500 feet of her home.
McClain was convicted in May 2021 of felony bail jumping in Brown County where he was also convicted of two domestic abuse crimes against the same woman in the latest case.
McClain is prohibited from possessing a firearm.
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