Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

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Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The seven men slain during the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
Location	Warehouse at West Dickens Avenue and North Clark Street, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date	February 14, 1929; 95 years ago (February 14, 1929) 10:30 am (CST)
Attack type	Massacre, mass shooting
Weapons	Two Thompson submachine guns Two shotguns
Deaths	7 (five members of the North Side Gang and two other affiliates)
Perpetrators	Unknown
No. of participants	4 (all unidentified)

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. They were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants, two of whom were disguised as police officers.

The murders resulted from the competition for control of organized crime in the city during Prohibition between the largely Irish North Siders, headed by George "Bugs" Moran, and their largely Italian Chicago Outfit rivals led by Al Capone.^[1] The perpetrators have never been conclusively identified, but former members of the Egan's Rats gang working for Capone are suspected of involvement; others have said that members of the Chicago Police Department who allegedly wanted revenge for the killing of a police officer's son played a part.