Second shooter gets 40 years in fatal attack
The second shooter in a 2015 attack that killed one man and wounded two others was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison, and 21 more on supervision when he gets out.
Damontae Mullins, 21, was convicted in February of firstdegree reckless homicide in the death of Willie Brownlee and reckless endangerment for the wounding of two other men near N. 39th and W. Center streets on Aug. 14, 2015, while a fourth man worked on a car. The jury also found him guilty of bail jumping and possessing heroin.
The day after the shootings, Mullins’ girlfriend called a detective and said she had driven two men to and from that area, had heard shots and later had seen guns of the type that fired rounds found at the scene. But after providing that key information to police, she called back and said it was all a lie. Then she and Mullins left for Texas. They were later arrested in El Paso.
The girlfriend, Ashley Nelson, wound up testifying against Mullins and his co-defendant, Tyrell Tolbert, 19, who was convicted in August and sentenced to 38 years in prison.
Nelson, now of Sheboygan, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer and was sentenced to three years probation. The prosecutor noted that Nelson was the subject of threats and intimidation over her testimony and that someone even shot into her house.
Circuit Judge Mark Sanders imposed 30 years on the homicide, and five years each on the shootings that wounded the two men, all consecutive, plus three more for bail jumping and 7 1⁄2 years for the heroin charge, to be served concurrent to 40 years.