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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Evidence. 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. 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 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre shocked the world on February 14, 1929, when Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre exceeded any gangland killings before or after February 14, 1929, throwing the city into a frenzy of police activity, awakening the Chicago Crime Commission, and dismaying civic-minded businessmen who were tired of hearing their city called the world's “gangster capital.”Coroner Herman Bundesen, wielding more authority than any medical examiner before or After the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on February, 14, 1929, one of the nation’s foremost forensic scientists, Dr. Calvin Goddard, was hired to examine the ballistic evidence. Goddard compared the bullets collected from the crime scene with test bullets fired by a range of firearms. 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 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929 – a mystery still unsolved – is the story of seven men, gunned down in a Chicago warehouse. The Mob Museum tells this story, brick by brick, bullet by bullet, on its website dedicated entirely to the Massacre: stvalentinemassacre.com. Most of the evidence does point to Al Capone as the man behind the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre — but not all of it. Fred Burke, a known associate of Capone’s, got in a car crash and killed a police officer on December 14, 1929. The Werner Storage Company building located at 2122 N. Clark St., shown here in 1953 is the scene of the St. Valentine's Day massacre on Feb. 14, 1929. The building was torn down December 1967 Home » Crime Library » Organized Crime » Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre Between 1924 and 1930, the city of Chicago became one of the largest centers for gang activity in the country. Following the ratification of the 18th Amendment, Prohibition led to the rise of bootlegging, giving many gangs a way to make money and connections in their The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the intended album title for rapper 50 Cent's second studio album. It was later retitled The Massacre, due to date pushbacks. The album was released on March 3, 2005. [18] Grand Theft Auto Online featured an update titled the Valentine's Day Massacre Special. The update released on February 14, 2014. [19] 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. 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 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 day after the massacre, a coroner's jury watched police reenact the killings at the scene of the crime. For more photos, see the gallery ». At around 10:30 in the morning on February 14th, a The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred about 10:30 a.m. on February 14, 1929, inside the S.M.C. Cartage Company garage at 2122 North Clark Street on the north side of Chicago. Seven men associated with George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging operation were waiting inside the garage, presumably for a meeting to buy a hijacked shipment of 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. McGurn survived another hit attempt on April 27, 1928, when a car carrying four men opened fire with Tommy guns on McGurn’s Lincoln. Most of the evidence does point to Al Capone as the man behind the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre — but not all of it. Fred Burke, a known associate of Capone’s, got in a car crash and killed a police officer on December 14, 1929. On February 15, 1936, nearly seven years to the day of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, McGurn was gunned down at a bowling alley. Bugs Moran was quite shaken from the entire incident. He stayed in Chicago until the end of Prohibition and then was arrested in 1946 for some small-time bank robberies. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre marked a turning point in public opinion regarding organized crime. While the violence between criminal factions had been an ongoing concern, the audacity of the massacre, carried out in broad daylight, horrified the public and galvanized law enforcement efforts to combat the rampant criminal activity.
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