On June 3, two days after the attack, close friends of the Sowers started a Web site to help keep the couple's large network of friends and family updated on Zach's condition.
Yesterday, the site was used to broadcast the news of Zach's death. A close friend of the couple posted a large photo of Zach and Anna, taken on their wedding day in October 2006.
"He was so strong and fought until the very end but it provides comfort for us all to know that he is now in heaven, watching over his friends and family," a friend, Justin Bright, wrote.
FOR THE RECORD - An article in Thursday's Maryland section misreported the sentences for three teenagers in the beating and robbery of Zachary Sowers 10 months ago in Baltimore. Arthur Jeter, 18, Wilburt Martin, 19, and Eric L. Price, 17, were sentenced to 30 years in prison each, with all but eight years suspended. The article also reported incorrectly that Jeter and Martin had watched the attack from a car. Prosecutors said the teens could not have seen the attack from where they were seated.
The Sun regrets the errors.
Alan Morstein, owner of Regi's American Bistro on Light Street, had participated in two fundraising events held to help defray theSowers' hospital bills. Reached by phone yesterday, Morstein was stunned by the news that Zach had died. While still on the phone, he turned to a co-worker and said: "Zach passed away."
Keiffer J. Mitchell, a former City Councilman who ran for mayor last year, said he was moved by Anna Sowers' "complete devotion" to her husband, and that the attack stuck out in his mind because of its brazenness.
"This was a young couple who had moved to Baltimore, who were just starting a life together, and living in the city," Mitchell said yesterday. "They had their whole future ahead of them."
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Sun reporter Chris Emery contributed to this story.
