Al Capone was never charged for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
The assassination of O'Banion, in which Capone was suspected of taking part, sparked a five-year Chicago gang war, culminating in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Throughout the open warfare between Chicago's Italian and Irish gangs, Capone had survived a handful of assassination attempts. He is said to have given the order to assassinate the North Side Gang's most recent leader, George "Bugs" Moran, who took over after the gang's previous two leaders, Hymie Weiss and Vincent Drucci, were killed.
On February 14, 1929, men dressed as police officers staged an alcohol raid on Moran's headquarters at 2122 North Clark Street, lining up seven men against a wall, mistaking one of them for Moran, who was actually running late, and murdering them in cold blood. The only witness, who lived just a few minutes after the police arrived, remained silent.
Moran continued to be involved in organized crime after Prohibition, but he died penniless in Leavenworth Federal Prison in 1957. The perpetrators of the massacre were never identified, and Capone, who claimed to be in Miami at the time, was never charged for his alleged role in ordering the multi-man hit.
