PHOTO: Courtesy of Green Bay PD
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Despite making another 6,430 contacts in the last three months – and more than 11,000 overall – the State Public Defender’s office still hasn’t found an attorney for Jordan Leavy-Carter, who allegedly provided the gun one 5-year-old used to shoot and kill another 5-year-old in 2022.
Leavy-Carter, 39, 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 Green Bay’s east side. Skye Bleu Evans-Cowley was killed.
While trial dates had been set for November 2024, Leavy-Carter’s attorney, Jevon Jaconi, fell ill and then died in January 2025. Since then, Leavy-Carter has been waiting for an attorney to be appointed.
During a March hearing, Judge Timothy Hinkfuss said he was giving the state one “last gasp” to appoint someone, or else he would appoint an attorney through Brown County.
But in court Tuesday, the judge extended the deadline again, saying the state would have until a Sept. 15 hearing to find a lawyer.
“They don’t have a lawyer for you. That’s a problem. You follow what I am saying? They’ve made contacts but no one has agreed to take your case.” the judge said.
“That’s unfortunate,” Leavy-Carter said.
“Yeah, it is. You’ve been sitting there. The victim’s waiting, and the public, the whole system is waiting, as well,” the judge said.
According to the criminal complaint, the child who did the shooting told police Leavy-Carter gave her the gun.
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 unrelated convictions.
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