Moran was the last survivor of the North Side gunmen his succession had come about because his similarly aggressive predecessors, Hymie Weiss and Vincent Drucci, had been killed in the violence that followed the murder of their original leader, Dean O'Banion. The impetus for the plan may have been the North Side Gang's hijacking of some expensive whisky being illegally smuggled by Capone's gang from Canada via the Detroit River. Al Capone, who was at his Florida home at the time, was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the massacre.

The massacre was an attempt to eliminate Bugs Moran, head of the North Side Gang. When the police asked him who did it, he reportedly replied, 'No one shot me.' He died three hours later. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors stabilized him for a short time and police tried to question him. Schwimmer, a former optician turned gambler and gang associate and John May, an occasional mechanic for the Moran gang.Ĭhicago police officers arrived at the scene to find that victim Frank Gusenberg was still alive, despite having sustained 14 bullet wounds. Two associates were also shot: Reinhardt H. Moran's second in command and brother-in-law Albert Kachellek ( alias James Clark) was killed along with Adam Heyer, the gang's bookkeeper and business manager Albert Weinshank, who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran and gang enforcers Frank Gusenberg and Peter Gusenberg. The victims included five members of George 'Bugs' Moran's North Side Gang.

Witnesses saw the men in police uniforms leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. Two of the shooters were wearing police uniforms, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats, and hats. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns. Class=notpageimage| Location of the shootingsĪt 10:30 in the morning on Saint Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side.

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