July 4, 2008
Sun coverage: Zach Sowers
Anna Sowers kisses her husband, Zachary, 27, who was beaten in June on his way home from a night out. (Sun photo by Chiaki Kawajiri / July 20, 2007)
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Another Senselss Slayings When is going to stop. Please don't wait until it's you.
Submitted by Patricia Yarbrough
10:46 PM EDT, May 6, 2008
Does anyone worry why Baltimore City put an AMBER ALERT for "KNOWN FELONS"? This city protects the thugs of this city....Gov. O'Malley should be ashamed... Why was Warren Brown contacted??? What a waste of tax payers resources!!!
Submitted by STC
10:06 PM EDT, Apr 4, 2008
Did any one read the paper where Maryland has a "fund" for criminals that have become "victims" ? This state is PATHETIC!!!!
Submitted by Lucy
11:01 PM EDT, Mar 30, 2008
Burns apologizes to Sowers' widow
The spokeswoman for the Baltimore state's attorney's office has apologized by phone and by e-mail to the widow of a robbery victim whom she had criticized in an online publication, but she maintained that her comments were "vastly misrepresented" by the freelance journalist who wrote the piece.
Remarks about fatal beating spark outrage
The wife of a man who spent months in a coma after being hit during a robbery and later died is outraged at a spokeswoman for Baltimore prosecutors who questioned whether her husband's injuries were the result of a "vicious beating" and said that he looked like a "sleeping baby" at the hospital.
After attack, still grasping for life
Anna Sowers celebrated her 28th birthday in a Federal Hill restaurant yesterday with cake, balloons and good friends. But the most important person in her life, her husband, couldn't be there.
Gregory Kane: Her day in court far from satisfying
For six months, Anna Sowers had the sneaking suspicion that it would come to this.
40 years given in attack
Anna Sowers took no solace sitting in a Baltimore courtroom yesterday as her husband's attacker - a 16-year-old boy - was given 40 years in prison.
Teen denied trial as juvenile
A Baltimore Circuit Court judge has denied a man's request to be tried as a juvenile in two violent robbery cases earlier this year, including an attack that left a Southeast Baltimore man in a coma.
City officials join Zach Sowers' friends, family, supporters
It's a street robbery that left a 27-year old man in a coma, his wife shaken and a community outraged - and yesterday it drew the attention of Mayor Sheila Dixon and her leading challenger in next month's Democratic primary election, City Councilman Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr.
Violence hits too close to home
It was her one free weekend amid a hectic schedule juggling work and graduate school, and Anna Sowers spent it shopping for purses and jewelry with friends in downtown Chicago. But she couldn't reach her husband back in Baltimore, who had been out with friends in Canton the night before.
4 arrested in June 2 street attack
They stole his cell phone, credit cards and a watch. But for those common and easily replaceable items, Zachary "Zach" Sowers' attackers also nearly took his life.
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