PHOTO: Courtesy of Green Bay PD
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – After more than a year and 5,422 unsuccessful attempts at finding an attorney, a judge is giving the state Public Defender’s Office one more chance to find an attorney for the man accused of providing the gun one 5-year-old used to kill another 5-year-old in 2022 before the judge uses a different mechanism to assign him an lawyer.
Jordan 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 Oct. 17, 2022, shooting on Amy Street on Green Bay’s east side.
While trial dates had been set for November 2024, his attorney, Jevon Jaconi, fell ill, then died in January, 2025.
Since then, the state has made 5,422 contacts but hasn’t found an attorney for Leavy-Carter, Judge Tim Hinkfuss said in court Friday.
Leavy-Carter, who is currently at the Racine Correctional Institution on unrelated drug charges, said he’s frustrated by the delays. Other inmates try to get information from him to testify against him, and he wants his version of the events told.
At the urging of the state, Judge Hinkfuss said this is the last chance for Public Defender’s Office to find an attorney, or else he will appoint an attorney through Brown County.
“This is the last gasp in terms of the state public defender office if anybody will take this case. And then, next time, if we could make a note madame clerk, if not, I am going to appoint,” the judge said.
Another status conference is set for June 9.
According to the criminal complaint, the child who did the shooting told police Leavy-Carter gave her the gun. Skye 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-Cowley 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.
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