Jordan Leavy-Carter charged in shooting death of Green Bay 5-year-old at east-side apartment building

Doug Schneider, Green Bay Press-Gazette
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GREEN BAY - A 35-year-old Green Bay was charged Thursday in the shooting death of a 5-year-old girl last month on the city's east side.

Jordan J. Leavy-Carter was charged with second-decree reckless homicide as party to a crime in the Oct. 17 shooting death of Skye Bleu Evans-Crowley of Green Bay.

The girl had been playing inside an Amy Street apartment building where she and her mother lived when she was struck by a bullet.

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According to the criminal complaint:

  • Skye was in the living room playing with two other children when she was shot. Her mother, who was dating Leavy-Carter, was in the bathroom.

  • Skye's mother told police she heard "a pop that sounded like fireworks" and then Skye came into the bathroom, holding her left side. She told her mom "it hurt" and then fell to the floor.

  • Leavy-Carter was in the hallway, Skye's mother said, holding a silver and black handgun. She said he told her one of the kids "did it." Leavy-Carter then left.

  • One of the children told her mother that she had shot Skye. She told police Leavy-Carter had a gun with a light on it. After Leavy-Carter gave her the gun, "she touched the wrong button, and it came out like fire" and hit Skye. Her hand later tested positive gunpowder residue.

  • Leavy-Carter said he had been in the kitchen when the shot was fired. He said he had left the gun on the TV stand.

  • Skye suffered a fatal gunshot wound to her left upper abdomen, according to the pathologist's report.

Green Bay police identified Leavy-Carter as a person of interest and searched for his vehicle. He was arrested Oct. 21 in Beloit, where his car had been recovered earlier.

Leavy-Carter also faces charges of misdemeanor neglecting a child where the consequence of the neglect is death, and felony possession of a firearm by a felon as a repeat offender. He was originally held on a charge of violating his probation from a 2015 conviction on two counts of manufacture and delivery of heroin.

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