Organized Crime Figure. He was one of the seven victims of the “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre” in Chicago, Illinois. He was part of gangster “Bugs Moran” crime gang, serving as a contract killer and enforcer. When he and six other Moran associates were gathered in a garage behind the offices of the S.M.C. Cartage Company on February 14, 1929, they were lined up against a wall and gunned down by assailants who were dressed as police officers.