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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. This rash of gang violence reached its bloody climax in a garage on the city’s North Side on February 14, 1929, when seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, one of St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago on February 14, 1929. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition era in the United States. The crime that became known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred on the morning of February 14, 1929, inside a garage on the north side of Chicago. Seven members of Bugs Moran’s gang were lined up against a wall and shot down with Tommy guns. On the seventh anniversary of the massacre, Jack McGurn, one of the Valentine’s Day hitmen, was killed in a crowded bowling alley with a burst of machine-gun fire. Inside, they lined up seven of Moran’s unarmed henchmen against the wall like it was a police raid, then pulled machine guns from their jackets and opened fire. 70 bullets later, all seven mob members lay dead or dying in pools of their own blood. In a mob hit known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, seven members of George "Bugs" Moran's gang were gunned down in a Chicago garage on February 14, 1929. Though Al Capone was the prime suspect, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre remains unsolved. On the chilly winter morning of February 14, 1929, four men entered SMC Cartage Company garage in Chicago. Seven members of Bugs Moran’s gang were lined up against the wall and shot. The men opened fire with two Thompson submachine guns and a shotgun. All seven were shot dead. Around 10:30 a.m. on St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1929, seven members of Bugs Moran's gang were gunned down in cold blood in a garage in Chicago. The massacre, orchestrated by Al Capone, shocked the nation by its brutality. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois, in the winter of 1929: The South Side Italian gang led by Al "Scarface" Capone and the North Side Irish/German gang led by George "Bugs As for Jack McGurn, he was assassinated by three men using machine guns on February 15, 1936, one day after the seventh anniversary of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, at a Bowling Alley. McGurn Lying Dead Also, McGurn would have had good reason to go after members of Bugs Moran’s gang. On March 7, 1928, he was hit in the chest and arm by machine gun fire in the McCormick Hotel. His assailants allegedly were the Gusenberg brothers, Peter and Frank, who less than a year later were two of the seven men killed in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. To this day, in early 2024, no one has ever been arrested for the murders that occurred during the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Several factors played into the lack of arrests. The biggest issue was that the man who is assumed to have ordered the massacre, Al Capone, was vacationing in Florida at the time it occurred. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre claimed the lives of six men associated with Moran’s gang: Frank Gusenberg, Pete Gusenberg, Albert Kachellek, Adam Heyer, James Clark, and John May. While Moran himself narrowly escaped the bloodshed, the brutal event shook the criminal underworld and the public, highlighting the audacity and ruthlessness of The bodies of six of the seven men slain on Feb. 14, 1929, in the S. M. C. Cartage Company garage at 2122 N. Clark St. on Chicago's North Side in what became known as the St. Valentine's Day A commercial garage on the north side of Chicago was the setting for the most horrific shooting in Mob history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, seven members and associates of George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging gang were lined up against a wall and shot dead inside the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Men holdings shotguns and other men with hands raised, viewed in profile, during reenactment of St. Valentine’s Day Massacre by investigators. Chicago, Ill. 1929. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. THE COLDEST CASE: Since February 14, 1929, when seven men were gunned down inside a Clark Street garage, the mastermind behind the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre has remained a mystery, though
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