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This article possibly contains original research. The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago’s North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine’s Day 1929. 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. The victims included five members of George “Bugs” Moran’s North Side Gang. Chicago police officers arrived at the scene to find that victim Frank Gusenberg was still alive, despite having sustained 14 bullet wounds. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors stabilized him for a short time and police tried to question him.
When the police asked him who did it, he reportedly replied, “No one shot me. The massacre was an attempt to eliminate Bugs Moran, head of the North Side Gang. Al Capone, who was at his Florida home at the time, was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the massacre. Hymie Weiss and Vincent Drucci, had been killed in the violence that followed the murder of their original leader, Dean O’Banion. Several factors contributed to the timing of the plan to kill Moran.