On a frigid morning, in an unheated brick garage at 2122 N. Clark St. in Chicago, seven men were lined up against a whitewashed wall and pumped with 90 bullets from submachine guns, shotguns and a revolver. It was the most infamous of all gangland slayings in America, and it savagely achieved its purpose--the elimination of the last challenge to Al Capone for the mantle of crime boss in Chicago.
A city that had been numbed senseless by the constant gangster killings over control of illegal beer and whiskey distribution, was left mortally shocked by what the media called, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
For 89 years Al Capone's murder of his rival gang was the worse ever on Valentines day. Now, the day set aside for love and romance has once again been tarnished by another heinous act of violence that makes what Capone did look like child splay. This time it was committed by a young man bent on becoming a professional school shooter.
