as able to make it to the doorway of the apartment. He turned to Anthony and said, “ I’m hurt, get me upstairs fast.” Shortly after that he died on the living room floor. At the same time, Tony Krezenski, also 16, was stabbed several times and he tried to reach the safety of an apartment building at No. 447 but he dropped at the foot of the door and died. Edward Riemer, 18, of Ninth Avenue, who was also stabbed and repeatedly kicked, was fortunate enough to make it to St. Claire’s hospital in critical condition and survived. Unlike a similar killing that took place a week before this atrocity, when a boy and girl were killed and six others were shot or stabbed, the only girl at the scene was untouched.Some of the accounts held that the members of the gang held the boys down while the Capeman stabbed them in the back. One of the mortally injured boys was said to have stagger across 46th Street holding his intestines in his hands. Cops arrived to the scene and the streets were filled with the neighbors who although not surprised, looked at the two dead victims in awe.When the police found a knife, a black cape, a hat, and a belt, their prime suspects were the Capeman, Salvador Agron, and his sidekick Antonio Hernandez. In total there were thirteen arrests made. Besides for the two leaders of the pack whom were charged with criminal homicide, of which they admitted to, the attackers were charged with unlawful assembly and juvenile delinquency. Agron, who’s father left him as an infant, who spent many of his adolescent years in detention centers, was asked why he engaged in the killings and his response was, “Because I felt like it.” He also said, “I don’t care if I burn, my mother could watch me.” His mother even brought him a Bible to read while he was in jail but he would not take it. Agron went on to brag about how many others he had sliced and stabbed over th...
