Killing of Luke Kennedy (Egan-Hogan retaliation) was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Missouri, 1922.
Luke Kennedy, blamed by the Egan's Rats for a role in Willie Egan's murder, was hunted down and shot dead in the Wellston area of St. Louis, one of the central retaliatory killings of the Egan-Hogan war. Under William 'Dint' Colbeck the Rats systematically pursued those they held responsible for their founder's death, and Kennedy's killing was among a string of reprisals that also drove Hogan leaders into hiding. The war between the two organizations, fought with pistols, shotguns and the era's new automatic weapons, turned St. Louis streets into a running battleground of ambushes and drive-by shootings. Kennedy's death exemplified the vendetta character of the conflict, in which each faction methodically eliminated the other's gunmen until exhaustion and public pressure forced a negotiated peace in 1923.
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