PHOTO: Courtesy of Green Bay PD
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — It could be another year before Jordan Leavy-Carter goes on trial for allegedly supplying the gun one 5-year-old used to inadvertently shoot and kill another 5-year-old in October 2022.
Leavy-Carter, 38, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide, neglecting a child – consequence is death and being a felon in possession of a firearm for the shooting on Amy Street on the city’s east side.
There were two different trial dates last year, and the possibility of a plea deal was discussed in court. But after attorney Jevon Jaconi fell ill, and later died, the case was put on hold.
At a hearing Tuesday, it was revealed that the state public defender’s office still has not found an attorney for Leavy-Carter. Another status conference was set for Sept. 19.
Once an attorney is found, the pre-trial process of reviewing evidence often takes months. Additionally, trial dates are usually set months in advance.
According to the criminal complaint, the child who did the shooting 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.
Leavy-Carter is currently at the Racine Correctional Institution on an unrelated drug case.
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