Marisela Cuevas of Green Bay said she is no longer the same person she was before July 14, 2023; the day her son was fatally shot by 25-year-old Michael Putala of Ashwaubenon during a car chase near Cass Street.
“I just want to be the person I was before all this happened, but that’s just impossible,” Cuevas told Brown County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Walsh at Putala’s July 23 sentencing. “Whatever happens today, the worst is already done.”
Putala pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless homicide April 18 in the death of Carlos Ponce-Cuevas, 24, of Green Bay. Cuevas called the plea agreement “a joke” and asked Walsh to reject it…