04-17-2011, 10:33 AM
he had a history of violence and abusing other women. as well as her back in Jan. when do these young women learn to leave scum alone?? a girl like that can't find someone decent?
The NY Daily News has more on the tragic story this morning, noting that Barrera is currently locked inside the psych ward at Bellevue Hospital.
Barrera had a history of violence. the public relations big-wig pleaded guilty last year to charges of attacking a man with a broken bottle inside his then Murray Hill apartment. He shared that home with Coit as well.
Accused murderer Raul Barrera's devastated dad yesterday said his "heart goes out" to the family of the young woman his son allegedly butchered during a blood-spattered breakup.
"He's a good person. I'm sure it was the passion in the moment," Raul Barrera Sr. told The NY Post.
Asked about the family of his suave son's slain girlfriend Sarah Coit, the elder Barrera said, "If I could see them in person, I'd tell them my heart goes out to them."
The distraught dad, who convinced his son to surrender Sunday after allegedly getting a disturbing phone call confession from the womanizing p.r. free-lancer, then complained to a nearby cop about a photographer.
Raul Barrera Sr. (center), in a family snapshot below with his wife and son Raul Jr. -- accused of murdering Sarah Coit -- said of the slaying: "I'm sure it was the passion in the moment."
"My son just murdered someone, and this guy is taking my picture," Barrera Sr. said after visiting his grandson Raul III in the East Village.
He and his wife later visited their son in the jail ward of Bellevue Hospital, where he has been on suicide watch since being arraigned in the fatal stabbing of pretty blonde Coit, 23.
She was killed with several knives in their Lower East Side apartment.
A witness to that meeting said the accused killer "was crying through the whole time. His mother was on her knees, holding him, praying and crying.
"Nobody said a word the whole time."
Coit's friends have said the younger Barrera, 33, emotionally brutalized her during their relationship -- and the couple's recent neighbors in a Midtown apartment building described her screaming in terror as he assaulted her in January.
The NY Daily News has more on the tragic story this morning, noting that Barrera is currently locked inside the psych ward at Bellevue Hospital.
Barrera had a history of violence. the public relations big-wig pleaded guilty last year to charges of attacking a man with a broken bottle inside his then Murray Hill apartment. He shared that home with Coit as well.
Accused murderer Raul Barrera's devastated dad yesterday said his "heart goes out" to the family of the young woman his son allegedly butchered during a blood-spattered breakup.
"He's a good person. I'm sure it was the passion in the moment," Raul Barrera Sr. told The NY Post.
Asked about the family of his suave son's slain girlfriend Sarah Coit, the elder Barrera said, "If I could see them in person, I'd tell them my heart goes out to them."
The distraught dad, who convinced his son to surrender Sunday after allegedly getting a disturbing phone call confession from the womanizing p.r. free-lancer, then complained to a nearby cop about a photographer.
Raul Barrera Sr. (center), in a family snapshot below with his wife and son Raul Jr. -- accused of murdering Sarah Coit -- said of the slaying: "I'm sure it was the passion in the moment."
"My son just murdered someone, and this guy is taking my picture," Barrera Sr. said after visiting his grandson Raul III in the East Village.
He and his wife later visited their son in the jail ward of Bellevue Hospital, where he has been on suicide watch since being arraigned in the fatal stabbing of pretty blonde Coit, 23.
She was killed with several knives in their Lower East Side apartment.
A witness to that meeting said the accused killer "was crying through the whole time. His mother was on her knees, holding him, praying and crying.
"Nobody said a word the whole time."
Coit's friends have said the younger Barrera, 33, emotionally brutalized her during their relationship -- and the couple's recent neighbors in a Midtown apartment building described her screaming in terror as he assaulted her in January.