PHOTO: Courtesy of Green Bay PD
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 Tuesday from next week until November.
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 Green Bay’s east side.
The defense requested an adjournment, asking for more time to prepare. Assistant District Attorney Wendy Lemkuil didn’t oppose the request. She noted there have been some issues related to Marsy’s Law, and plea negotiations continue.
A plea hearing was set for July 18, in the event the case is resolved before the scheduled five-day trial on Nov. 4.
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 in custody at the Stanley Correctional Institution on unrelated drug charges.
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