St. Valentine's Day Massacre: How Gangster Al Capone Snuffed His Competition (FPD CASE VAULT)
Feb. 14 2024, Published 12:03 p.m. ET
crime boss Al Capone tightened his stranglehold over the city's bootlegging, gambling and prostitution rackets with the most infamous gangland slaying in American history.
George "Bugs" Moran was the target, but wasn't there when killers called
On St. Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 1929, seven men from a rival gang run by Capone's archenemy George "Bugs" Moran were lined up against a wall in a garage and riddled with bullets by hit men posing as cops who used machine guns, shotguns and revolvers to snuff out their victims.
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Seven gangsters of Bugs Moran's gang were killed by Al Capone in a garage in Chicago on Feb 14, 1929.
No one was ever convicted of the murders.
The bullet-riddled bricks from the garage wall are now in the Las Vegas Mob Museum, which opened Feb. 14, 2012.
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