Teen killed at spot where friend died hours earlier
POSTED: 5:12 p.m. EDT, March 25, 2007

WEST WARWICK, Rhode Island (AP) -- A teenager was killed by a hit-and-run driver at the same spot where his 14-year-old friend had died in a car crash just hours earlier.

Andrew Coit, 18, was hit by a car after 4 a.m. Saturday as he played a guitar at a makeshift memorial to Darien Plass, 14, on West Warwick's Main Street. Plass died after driving his mother's minivan into a utility pole late Friday, friends of both teenagers told the Providence Journal.

"He wanted to play one last song for (Plass), and that was the last time anyone saw him. He loved singing. He died doing what he loved doing," said Coit's friend, Dennis Sullivan.

Plass' friends said he had been drinking and took his mother's minivan without her knowledge. Coit and other friends set up the memorial.

Sullivan told the newspaper the mourners remained at the memorial until about 4 a.m., but Coit stayed behind to play one more song for Plass by himself.

Minutes later, police received a call of a man down, and an ambulance crew found Coit on the sidewalk. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

"He died pretty much instantly. He did not suffer," Alan Coit said of his son.

Police were searching for the hit-and-run driver who hit Coit, said Detective Sgt. James Tiernan.

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Hit and run drivers make me sick.

thats really really sad

what the fuck, he died at the memorial he set up for his friend? That is some fucked up shit.

Ironic. It all happened for a reason. That is the way I look at it.
They are better off than we all are.

Its because you're fucking EMO.

I'm just fine alive.

thats so sad :[

Fucking sad.

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I agree though, that's messed up. Hit and run drivers should be shot in the face with a cannon. Like in The Patriot. That shit was cool.

They make me sick and they make me want to buy a gun and shoot all of their heads off.

Thats pretty bad

I feel sorry for their friends, they've lost two mates in the space of a few hours.

totally.

This incident is pretty scary. Its like the friend wants to take him along.

Thats pretty tragic..
imagine what their families and friends are going through

people dying is really a sad thing. but it happens sooner or later.

yeah i know, but they were so young

That's the saddest ironic twist I think I've ever heard of.

it does happen sooner or later, but it's much harder to see a young person die than it is for a 70 year old grandparent, cause at least an older person got the chance to live a full life

that's so sad..

Hit & run-drivers should be hit by a car themselves...

Wow, that really is tragic. Life is so unexpected at times.

I bet he owed his friend money.

But yeah, thats pretty sad.

....lol.

The irony kills me.

Ohh, wow. :[

Jeez. What are the chances of that happening.

I agree with Foobs, hah. It must be a supernatural being's doing!

so sad

"He died doing what he loved."

Thats what they say about Pete Maravich (he died playing a pickup game near a church).

that is terrible, i almost went there too, well warwick, to meet the ghost hunters.

heh ironic

dude, so sweet of the older one. But such a tradjety

Yeah thats pretty eerie. It gives me chiils just thinking about it

That's really sad.

At least they are now together...I think...

ya its really sad
but when you think if it that way its pretty scary.

that is really really sad

Thats horrible but at least it was a good death. If there is such one.
Cos at least like his friend said, he died doing what he loved :]

I don't think there is such a thing as a good death, but i see where you're coming from.

All the other friends are gonna have to be extra careful now, just in case they want an extra heaven buddy.

thats horrible.
its really sad
to see such young kids
dying

Very sad

I bet no one's going to make a memorial for him! How could he be hit at a memorial? Was it in the middle of the road or something?

i believe it was on the side of the road in the area where his friend had crashed... a drunk driver came along later and swirved off the road and struck him

yeah, it's ironic
but sooo sad.
aww

OMG that is so awful!!

That is really really really really sad.

really depressing, those teens were too young to die

No way, seriously? If this is real then OMGWTFOMFG!!!

RIP.

Anna Nicole Smith and now this guy..

ironic
but most things will happen anyway
like it or not...
thats really sad...

thats so terrible :[