Killer Wants To Go To College

[billyshears]

Anyone know if a specific death rower inspired this Paul Simon song?

[The Nugget]

The whole Songs From The Capeman album is based on the life Salvador Agron who was a member of a Puerto Rican gang called The Vampires. They were on their way to a confrontation with an Irish gang called the Norsemen, when a rumble broke out and two teenaged innocent bystanders were stabbed to death. Witnesses described Agron as a "tall Puerto Rican wearing a cape." Thus he was called the Capeman. He was convicted and sentenced to death at age 16, but his sentence was commuted after pleas for mercy from prominent citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt. He was later released from prison after serving twenty years, apparently as a model prisoner, getting an education and becoming a political activist, before dying of natural causes in 1986 at the age of 43.