Sarah Coit “usually dated bad boys who mistreated her”

From today’s New York Post, we learn that Sarah Coit was a familiar type—a type that typically ends up on a slab in the morgue:

In the Brooklyn neighborhood where Barrera previously lived, residents said he had a thing for blond women like Coit, and often was seen getting into and out of car-service vehicles with a pretty girl at his side.

For her part, Coit usually dated bad boys who mistreated her, even at ritzy Greenwich HS, where Coit ran track and cross-country, said Sophie Conti 22, a friend who now lives in SoHo.

“She had a history of mildly abusive boyfriends,” Conti said, noting that in high school, Coit dated a guy who was in jail.

“She could have had anyone, but she chose sketchy characters,” Conti said of Coit, whose father, Lynde Coit, is a Cornell-educated lawyer and adviser to the CEO of Plasco Energy Group.

“It’s beyond me how anyone from our background could be put in such a situation. It was just shocking. She was just so tall and statuesque and beautiful,” Conti said.

Contrast that with Barrera, who gave people the creeps.

A sick girl with a taste for self-destruction, you say? But really, was Sarah Coit any sicker than the United States, was she any sicker than Great Britain or France or Sweden or Italy or Germany? Is not the entire West deliberately letting itself be destroyed by embracing masses of nonwhites and non-Westerners who are incompatible with its continued existence? Are not the innumerable white girls who put themselves in situations where they are abused and murdered by black and Hispanic and Muslim men the symbols of the liberal civilization that produced them?

Here’s the Post story:

Suspect’s ‘killer’ charm

“I knew he was going to kill her.”

A former neighbor of suave p.r. man Raul Barrera uttered those blood-chilling words yesterday after the sweet-talking womanizer was arrested for allegedly butchering his beautiful girlfriend—days before she planned to move out of their Lower East Side apartment to escape the controlling “monster.”

“His eyes were insane. He was a killer,” said Colleen Carerir, 24.

Carerir said she often heard Barrera terrorize Sarah Coit, 23, in the East 33rd Street building where they had lived before moving to Clinton Street, scene of the gruesome crime.

“He wasn’t human,” she said. “He was a monster. He looked at me like I was a piece of meat. I worked at Bellevue with mental patients, and they had nothing on this guy.”

SUAVE: Raul Barrera, accused of killing his beautiful girlfriend, Sarah Coit, was “very much a charmer,” according to his ex-boss.

Sarah Coit

Carerir had a sinking feeling that Barrera would end up killing Coit, a talented artist from Greenwich, Conn., who neighbors heard begging for her life on Sunday.

But even before then, on East 33rd, “I heard her violent screams,” said Carerir. In January, Carerir called cops one night “when I thought he was killing her.”

“He had her in the bathtub, and it sounded like he was filling it with water,” Carerir said. “I think he was strangling her. She was screaming a lot and coughing.”

Cops came, but did not arrest Barrera, she said.

Carerir said Barrera also “tried to hit on me. He was a ladies’ man.”

Barrera, once a staple at Louis Vuitton launch parties, was “very much a charmer. He spoke to a lot of women,” said his former p.r. boss, B.J. Coleman.

He did a lot more than hit on women. The handsome fashion flack—who moonlighted as a personal trainer at a Manhattan gym—had a record of seven domestic violence incidents with two former girlfriends from 2001 to 2004.

It appears they were the lucky ones.

He allegedly stabbed Coit over and over in the head and torso, rotating knives from a collection of eight that he had in the apartment, police sources said. Her head was also bashed in.

The attack was so grisly, it left a piece of a knife lodged in her head.

The violence around 2:30 a.m. was so loud, numerous neighbors were awakened by Coit’s anguished cries for help. Three people living in a building next door called 911 and told operators the yelling was coming from their apartment building. Two others also called 911, and they, too, gave the wrong address.

A blood-covered Barrera fled 63 Clinton St. after the fatal confrontation, allegedly leaving his girlfriend clinging to life on the floor with her internal organs spilling out.

Barrera hopped in a cab to Penn Station. On the way there, he called his father, who persuaded him to surrender, police said.

Stunned cops at the Ninth Precinct rushed to the address he gave them to find the dying woman.

Finally, help arrived, but it was too late. Through the locked door, police asked Coit if she was capable of letting them in.

“No,” she responded.

It’s believed to have been her last word.

Cops had to knock the door down. Shortly afterward, the School of Visual Arts student, an accomplished artist, was dead.

Barrera told cops their final fight began because she was leaving him. A few days earlier, neighbor Taren Dolbashian, 26, heard Barrera crying loudly, “Why are you doing this to me again?”

Jessica Blum, Coit’s best friend since age 13, said she had been trying to help Coit break away from Barrera.

She was happy to learn Coit had agreed to move out Sunday after weeks of putting it off.

“Sarah was trying to get away,” said Blum, who called the 33-year-old Barrera a freeloader and said he took advantage of Coit for years.

“He was awful. He gave you bad vibes instantly. He was horrible. He was controlling over her … He broke her computer when she wouldn’t let him use it. He would take her BlackBerry for a week at a time, saying she didn’t need to use it,” Blum said.

She also said Barrera would send BlackBerry messages to Coit’s friends from her phone, pretending to be her and cutting them off.

“He was an emotionally controlling person. It’s baffling that she stayed with him. She normally wouldn’t put up with that. He’s a real monster,” Blum said.

In the Brooklyn neighborhood where Barrera previously lived, residents said he had a thing for blond women like Coit, and often was seen getting into and out of car-service vehicles with a pretty girl at his side.

For her part, Coit usually dated bad boys who mistreated her, even at ritzy Greenwich HS, where Coit ran track and cross-country, said Sophie Conti 22, a friend who now lives in SoHo.

“She had a history of mildly abusive boyfriends,” Conti said, noting that in high school, Coit dated a guy who was in jail.

“She could have had anyone, but she chose sketchy characters,” Conti said of Coit, whose father, Lynde Coit, is a Cornell-educated lawyer and adviser to the CEO of Plasco Energy Group.

“It’s beyond me how anyone from our background could be put in such a situation. It was just shocking. She was just so tall and statuesque and beautiful,” Conti said.

Contrast that with Barrera, who gave people the creeps.

Coleman said he and his former employee had a falling-out in 2009, after he failed to show up for an assignment.

“Some of the girls in my office had a weird vibe about him,” said Coleman.

But that didn’t stop Barrera from hitting on lots of ladies. Some women fell for it, Coleman said.

Last week, Barrera reached out to Coleman after months of silence to say he was moving to the Lower East Side to be closer to his young son from a previous relationship, and that Coit had “moved back to Connecticut.”

Cops said he killed her instead.

After the murder, Barrera directed his cab to the Ninth Precinct station house because he knew where it was—due to having been taken there years ago following previous domestic-violence incidents from earlier relationships.

He told police, “I did something bad,” a source said.

He allegedly confessed, saying he had grabbed a knife out of Coit’s hands when she came at him with it, sources said.

But “there’s no excuse,” Barrera also admitted, sources said.

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A reader writes:

I thought at one time that my daughter might be destined to like bad boys. But by the time she turned 17, she dropped her relationship with this destined-for-trouble deadbeat and saw him for what he was—a loser on the path towards nowhere. He is in jail now. She learned early.

Whether the liberal establishment screams it out loud or sweeps it under the rug, any young person with half a brain can see the neighborhoods in which blacks live and that an unacceptably high percentage of black men are trouble. Dangerous trouble. And if for whatever reason white women sleep with black men, be they stupid, guilt-ridden, or simply liking their men like their coffee, the end effect is the same—the herd is culled.

A reader in England writes:

Looking at the picture of Sarah Coit, the murdered young woman, she looks to be possibly mixed race, though predominantly white. Her nose is fairly wide etc. However, it is hard to tell from such a photo.

And he (the murderer boyfriend) seems very likely to be mixed race.

LA replies:

She definitely looks mixed race, in the photos I’ve seen. I’d say she has a small amount of black ancestry.

James P. writes:

Today’s Daily Mail article on the Sarah Coit killing notes that he mutilated her face before killing her. Note that he had “often” terrorized her before the fatal episode:

Colleen Carerir, 24, said she often [italics added] heard Barrera terrorise Miss Coit in the East 33rd Street building where they had lived before moving to Clinton Street.

Miss Carerir had called the police back in January “when I thought he was killing her.”

She said: “He had her in the bathtub, and it sounded like he was filling it with water. I think he was strangling her. She was screaming a lot and coughing.”

According to Miss Carerir the police came but did not arrest Barrera. She added that Barrera also “tried to hit on me. He was a ladies’ man.”

In Riverside, Connecticut, the town where Miss Coit grew up, grieving relatives and friends were seen entering the family home. Miss Coit was the only daughter of Lynde Coit, a prominent financial adviser, and his wife, Anne Taylor.

… Speaking to the New York Post, one said: “My friend who lives here told me this has been going on for a while. They’ve been fighting like that for months.

… Miss Coit had been studying marketing at Hunter college. Her father, Lynde Coit, is a Cornell-educated lawyer and the family live in a $1.4 million home in Greenwich.

You have to wonder—here is the daughter of wealth and privilege, who chooses to cohabit with a violent black thug, and who actively refuses to escape his clutches. What on Earth did her parents teach her when she was growing up? She was not stupid, and her parents weren’t stupid, either, but clearly she, like her parents, was blinded by liberal dogma, and preferred death to the stigma of “racism.”

Joel J. writes:

Ha! According to his twitter feed Barrera thought smoking should be banned in Central Park. Must be on the “right” side of history.

April 13

Bruce B. writes:

A commenter wrote:

“Looking at the picture of Sarah Coit, the murdered young woman, she looks to be possibly mixed race, though predominantly white. Her nose is fairly wide etc.”

I’m not an anthropologist, but that woman didn’t look the slightest bit mixed. Not all Europeans have ultra-slender noses. E.g. the so-called “Brunn” sub-race of Ireland. My great-grandfather was of exclusively low-German/Saxon ancestry (from Northwestern Germany near the border with the Netherlands) and had a health-sized proboscis.

LA replies:

It’s not so much her nose as the whole cast of her face and her tint. I agreed with the commenter. While it’s not definite, Coit looks like other mixed race people I’ve seen, for example the singer Mariah Carey. There seems to be a slight bit of admixture there.

Bruce B. replies:

I only have the picture you posted to go by. People are really into tanning both artificial and natural . Skin color, particularly when we live outside of our native lands, is one of the most variable physical features of Northern Europeans. Some of us burn and turn bright red, some of us freckle, and some of us tan. One saying is that Celts freckle, Nordics tan. I’ve seen some very tan Scandinavians and my low-German grandpa was a very tan Florida resident.

Bruce writes:

Re your English reader, Brits sometimes don’t understand how much they/we can tan when we’re not in high latitudes with frequent cloud cover.

By the way, the reader from England said that the murderer boyfriend looked mixed. I assume with a name like Raul Barrera he’s Dominican, which would make your reader’s assumption correct.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 12, 2011 02:19 PM | Send