The wife of a Baltimore man beaten into a coma says she?s “not happy” with Monday?s plea deal that gave her husband?s main attacker 40 years in prison.
“Zach is probably not coming out of this coma,” said Anna Sowers, the wife of Zach Sowers, 27, who was beaten into a coma June 2 as he was walking home from the bars in Canton. “Nothing will feel like justice.”
Trayvon Ramos, 16, pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree attempted murder and robbery and was sentenced by Baltimore City Circuit Judge John Themelis to 40 years in prison. Themelis also sentenced Ramos? co-defendants ? Eric Price, 17, Arthur Jeter, 18, and Wilburt Martin, 19 ? each to eight years in prison for their roles in the attack.
“The state?s attorney?s office believes the Baltimore City jurors were going to find Ramos not guilty, when he?s clearly guilty,” Anna Sowers said. “If juries won?t convict guilty people, it makes it so the criminals continue to win.”
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.
Baltimore City State?s Attorney?s Office spokesman Joseph Sviatko said they “certainly empathize with the Sowers family, ultimately, the state must put the best interest of the citizens of Baltimore first ? and by securing these guilty pleas, we believe we?ve done just that.”
Detectives were led to the four teens by tracking expenditures on Sowers? credit cards, which were stolen from him.
“They showed no remorse,” Sowers said. “After six months, they never said they were sorry. Spending his credit card money is not remorse. Wearing his watch is not remorse.”
Sowers? friends and family have started several fundraising campaigns tohelp pay for the family?s high medical bills, including raising $13,000 at a simultaneous events in Baltimore earlier this year. Sowers has also become active politically, speaking out against Baltimore?s rampant crime.
“I?m not going to stay in Baltimore forever ? I can?t put myself through the misery,” she said. “But I want to be able to change something before I leave.”
