GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — For the first time in more than 18 months, the man who allegedly provided the gun one 5-year-old used to shoot and kill another 5-year-old in 2022 has an attorney.
Jordan 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. Skyé 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 a new attorney to be appointed. His case has been repeatedly postponed while the State Public Defender’s office made more than 11,000 contacts with attorneys, trying to find someone to take the case.
On Wednesday, Milwaukee-based attorney Jane Christopherson was appointed to the case, court records show.
Currently, a status conference is scheduled for Sept. 15, but that was set before there was an attorney, so a sooner court date may be set.
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.
