Labor Day Carnage in Chicago as Over 40 People Shot During Holiday Weekend

Bloodshed marked Labor Day across Chicago as at least 46 people were gunned down in the city over the holiday weekend, with seven losing their lives.

Friday night saw a spate of shootings and the violence continued through Saturday and Sunday, as police and paramedics scrambled to deal with the fallout.

Children, one as young as 13, were among the victims now being treated for their injuries in hospital.

Data from the Gun Violence Archive, which records fatal and non-fating shootings across the U.S., revealed that there have been 323 shootings recorded so far across the country from September 2 through September 4. That means Chicago's 46 victims account for a little over 14 percent of that total figure.

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the knee in the early hours of Sunday morning on the city's West Side. He heard shots ring out as he walked along the 700-block of South Kostner Avenue, in the Lawndale neighborhood, at about 1:30 a.m. and felt a sudden pain in his leg before realizing he had been shot, according to local news channel ABC7.

He is said to be in a "good condition" as he undergoes treatment at the West Suburban Medical Center, according to the station, which added there have been no arrests so far in connection with the incident.

It came just two days after a 15-year-old boy was seriously wounded when he was shot twice in the back on Friday night in South Chicago. Four men in a car pulled up next to him as he walked along the 7900-block of South Crandon Avenue and opened fire just before midnight. He remains in "critical condition" in the University of Chicago Medical Center, police told ABC7. Detectives are still investigating.

The city's fatalities also include a 24-year-old man who was shot repeatedly in the back in an ambush in West Garfield Park on Friday evening. Multiple offenders jumped out and fired shots at him before fleeing, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene but his identity has not yet been publicly released and detectives are still investigating the attack.

Another man, a 31-year-old, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to his chest on the 1300-block of North Hudson Avenue of Old Town at 12.04 a.m. on Saturday morning. He was rushed to Northwestern Hospital in critical condition but doctors were unable to save him. The medical examiner later identified him as Garvis C. Jones, according to ABC7. No one is in custody and Area Three detectives are investigating.

Just hours later, a man was killed in a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. The man, 22, was found with multiple gunshot wounds at about 3 a.m. in the 6000-block of South Racine Avenue. He had suffered wounds to the chest and arm and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, but could not be revived. There have been no arrests in the case so far.

Later on Saturday, a 28-year-old man was shot and killed in the Pullman neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon after an argument with another man at a gas station. He was shot several times during the attack at 3:50 p.m. The medical examiner later identified him as Theatus White, ABC7 reports. There is no one in custody and Area Two detectives are investigating.

Elsewhere a 29-year-old man was killed after an argument broke out in West Woodlawn in the 6600-block of South Evans Avenue. He was shot in the neck and arm, and was later pronounced dead at the scene. No one is in custody for the killing.

Non-fatal shootings in the city over the holiday weekend include a 38-year-old man who was shot in the face as he drove downtown on Saturday night at 8:55 p.m. in the 400-block of North La Salle Street. The Chicago Fire Department rushed him to Northwestern Hospital where he remains in "good condition," police said.

Newsweek has reached out to the Chicago Police Department for further information about the Labor Day shootings.

The holiday weekend violence comes as Chicago is still reeling from the deadly mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. Seven people were killed and 48 left with gunshot wounds. Some suffered life-changing injuries, such as eight-year-old Cooper Roberts, who was shot in the abdomen and left paralyzed from the waist down. It's thought he may never walk again, according to NBC News.

Police named Robert Crimo III, 22, as the suspected gunman and he is now in custody awaiting trial, although he pleaded not guilty to 117 criminal charges

That three-day July Fourth weekend saw more than 80 people shot in the Chicago area, with more than dozen losing their lives.