LAWRENCE — The Andover teenager charged with providing alcohol to minors at a party involving the suicide of Elizabeth Mun will spend the next 18 months on probation.
Zachary Zimmerman, 19, appeared in Lawrence District Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to providing alcohol to minors. The former Concord Academy student and current freshman at the University of Vermont hosted an underage drinking party last year, Feb. 14, 2009, at his mother's Williams Street home.
Mun, 16, of Wellesley was Zimmerman's classmate at Concord Academy. She left the party early the next morning and was found by police face down in nearby Hussey Brook Pond about 100 yards away from Zimmerman's home at 58 Williams St.
Mun was brought to Lawrence General Hospital and later transferred to Children's Hospital in Boston, where she died that night.
The medical examiner's office ruled the cause of death was drowning by suicide, but also that consumption of alcohol was not a factor in her death.
Under an agreement with the court, Zimmerman admitted to providing alcohol to minors at the party.
A complete report will appear in Tuesday's edition of The Eagle-Tribune.
