On February 14, 1929, the North Side of Chicago experienced gang warfare. Seven men with George “Bugs” Moran, an Irish gangster, were shot and killed by men who were dressed as police officers. When the real police showed up at the scene, the men who were still alive refused to give up who had shot them. It is known that the hit was ordered by Al Capone, AKA Scarface. Moran had been expecting a load of whiskey that day, Moran had been running late and saw the “policemen” outside of his headquarters. Moran believed that his men were being busted, so he waited outside. Little did he know, his men were about to be killed by the hitmen. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre is the last confrontation between Moran and Capone. Moran lost too many important men to his business, and Capone spent some time in jail. Moran would continue to commit small crimes such as robberies until he was arrested in 1946. He was paroled in 1956 but was then immediately arrested again for a robbery he committed in 1945. He would die a few months later in February 1957.
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