Golf Artist Valentino Dixon Draws Himself Out Of Prison

His early drawings were mostly of cartoon characters and Disney figures. But they weren’t an escape from the tough East Buffalo neighborhood where he lived.

"Well, not at the time," he says. "It became an escape for me later on in life."

Dixon attended a school for the arts when he was a teen. But he started hanging out with drug dealers. When he was a bit older, he dealt cocaine to support his baby daughter. He often carried a gun. He was out on bail for possession charges on the night of Aug. 10, 1991.