  The CMS Collaboration has recently reported some excess events in final
states with electrons and jets, in searches for leptoquarks and $W'$ bosons.
Although these excesses may be due to some yet-to-be-understood background
mismodeling, it is useful to seek realistic interpretations involving new
particles that could generate such events. We show that resonant pair
production of vector-like leptons that decay to an electron and two jets leads
to kinematic distributions consistent with the CMS data.
