GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A June 17 trial date was set Monday for the man who allegedly supplied the gun one 5-year-old used to inadvertently shoot and kill another 5-year-old in Green Bay a year ago.
Jordan Leavy-Carter, 36, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide, neglecting a child – consequence is death, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
He has pleaded not guilty. A five-day trial was set at Monday’s hearing.
According to the criminal complaint, the child who did the shooting last October told police Leavy-Carter gave her the gun. Skyé Bleu Evans-Cowley was killed.
Leavy-Carter told police he was in the kitchen when the gun went off, and then entered another room to find Evans-Crowley had been shot.
He said he left the loaded gun on a TV stand — contradicting the child’s story he gave it to her — but didn’t think the children in the home could see it.
Leavy-Carter left the scene, and was later arrested in Beloit. He said the gun wasn’t his gun but he had it for protection.
Evans-Cowley died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to the complaint.
