Jordan Leavy-Carter appears before Brown County court via Zoom, September 10, 2024. (Brown County court/Zoom)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The trial for a man who allegedly supplied the gun one 5-year-old used to inadvertently shoot and kill another 5-year-old was postponed again Tuesday – this time indefinitely.
Jordan Leavy-Carter, 37, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide, neglecting a child – consequence is death, and being a felon in possession of a firearm for the Oct. 17, 2022, shooting on Amy Street on the city’s east side.
Leavy-Carter was scheduled to stand trial Nov. 4. However, his attorney has been experiencing serious health issues, and will have to leave the case. Another attorney will have to be appointed to the case, Judge Timothy Hinkfuss said in court Tuesday.
A status conference was scheduled for Dec. 13.
A June trial was scheduled at one point. There were also plea negotiations, but the case was not resolved.
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 Stanley Correctional Facility on an unrelated drug case.
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