Man With Superhuman Strength Fights Officers On I-43: Report

MILWAUKEE COUNTY, WI — Authorities in Milwaukee County say that a 30-year-old Sheboygan man caused a crash on I-43, taunted police while on the freeway and used superhuman strength to fight officers before his eventual arrest.

According to Milwaukee County Sheriff's officials, on Wednesday night at about 6:40 p.m., a deputy responded to a crash on I-43 southbound near Daphne Road. As he approached, he saw a man jump over the median wall from the southbound side to the northbound side. The deputy positioned his squad to protect the man from oncoming traffic.

The Deputy on the scene said the man, later identified as 30-year-old Jordan Klock of Sheboygan, Wis. charged at the squad. The deputy got out to order Klock to the ground, pointing his taser at him. The man clenched his fist, stared at the deputy and ignored the verbal orders to get on the ground. When he approached less than ten feet from the deputy, the deputy deployed the taser. Klock went to the ground, jumped up and ripped the probes out of his chest. The deputy requested additional squads to respond.

Officials said Klock continued to walk in the northbound lanes of traffic and display erratic behavior, such as karate moves, ignoring the deputy and clenching his fists in a threatening manner.

Glendale Police squads also responded to the scene. Officials said Klock ran from the officers and started to leap over the median wall again, but was stopped by Glendale officers and Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputies. Klock dropped to the ground, and suffered a laceration above his right eye.

Officials said that when the four officers tried to secure him with restraints, Klock was able to lift all four of them off the ground. Once secured with wrist and leg restraints, Glendale emergency medical responders were able to treat his laceration, and gave him medication to calm him.

He was transported in a med unit to the hospital, and to the Milwaukee County Jail this morning, where he was in the Special Needs area. After becoming increasingly combative, he was transported back to the hospital for additional treatment.

According to accounts, Klock caused the crash by passing a semi-truck that was in the right lane at a high rate of speed in the distress lane, side-swiping the semi, bouncing off the right distress wall and into a vehicle in the left lane of traffic. After the collision, Klock jumped out of his car, and began to dance around, barefoot, and then attempt to climb up the semi-trailer cattle hauler before going into traffic.

Klock faces charges of OWI-3rd/Drugs, 2nd Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety, and Resisting/Obstructing. His prior OWI convictions were in September 2009 and January 2013.

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