Lindsey Graham

Loftus was shocked by the violence and carnage of the scene.

He quickly ordered the other officer to call the station in order to alert the deputy police commissioner and the Illinois Bureau of Investigation.

But as Loftus turned to leave the garage, he heard a groan.

He looked down and was shocked to discover that the man lying by the door was still alive.

Loftus yelled out for the other officer to tell the station to send a police wagon to take this man to the hospital.

And as Loftus bent over to examine the victim's injuries more closely, he realized that he recognized the wounded man as a young member of the Northside gang named Frank Gusenberg.

Loftus asked him what had happened.

Gusenberg croaked out that cops had done it.

That didn't make sense to Loftus.

He pushed Gusenberg for more information, but Gusenberg refused to say anything else, only whispering, I won't talk twice.

Loftus knew it was a point of pride amongst gangsters that they didn't rat each other out.

They maintained a code of silence, solving their disputes with each other by themselves rather than involving law enforcement.

But he hoped the brutality of this crime would change Gusenberg's mind and implored him again to tell him what had happened.

But Gusenberg wouldn't say anything about who had shot him.

So Loftus turned his attention to the man's injuries.

It was clear he was in bad shape.

He assured Gusenberg that a wagon was coming to get him to the hospital.

And realizing that if Gusenberg was still alive, there might be other survivors, Loftus went to check on the other bodies.

He took the pulses of all the remaining men, except the two who had suffered head injuries too severe to have survived.

Loftus confirmed they were all dead.