Three of four teens pleaded guilty Friday to participating in a robbery and beating that left a Johns Hopkins Hospital employee in a coma.
Eric Price, 17, Arthur Jeter, 18, and Wilburt Martin, 19, face up to 15 years — eight if they cooperate — when they are sentenced in connection with the attack that left Zach Sowers, 27, in a coma June 2 as he was walking from the bars in Canton.
The teen accused of doing the bulk of the beating, Trayvon Ramos, 16, still faces life in prison if he?s convicted of attempted murder in Baltimore City Circuit Court.
“I want them to put away the guy that is most culpable, and that?s Ramos,” said Anna Sowers, Zach?s wife. “I would like for them all to be punished severely, but that?s not how it works. All four were a part of the attack. None of them bothered to call the police. None of them were remorseful.”
Sowers remains in a vegetative state after he was found lying in a pool of blood between a parked car and a curb. He had been robbed and brutally beaten as he walked back to the newlyweds? Patterson Park home.
“Nothing really has changed in his condition,” Anna Sowers said Friday. “There?s not much progress.”
Sowers? friends and family have started several fundraising campaigns to help pay for the family?s high medical bills, including raising $13,000 at a simultaneous event in Canton, Federal Hill and Fells Point earlier this year.
In a written victim impact statement, Anna Sowers said the crime has turned her “perfect life into a nightmare.”
“Zach is unconscious and we never know if he?ll be with us tomorrow,” she wrote. “I can visit Zach, but Zach will never speak back to me and will never again tell me he loves me.”
