PHOTO: Courtesy of Green Bay PD
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – About a year after his case was placed on hold due to his attorney’s illness and subsequent death, the state Public Defender’s Office still hasn’t found an attorney for Jordan Leavy-Carter, who allegedly supplied 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.
During a court appearance Friday, the judge reviewed a letter from public defender’s office saying it made 3,344 contacts with attorneys but without success.
With no lawyer in place, another status conference was scheduled for Dec. 8.
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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