As President Donald Trump threatens to send the National Guard into Chicago to quell violence, violence surged, with 16 people wounded over the weekend in three mass shootings. Other attacks left 9 dead.

Police said that at least 58 people were shot – eight of them fatally – in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, according to local news reports.The violent weekend included at least two mass shootings in the Bronzeville neighborhood within just 48 hours,

One of the seven people who lost their lives to gun violence in Chicago this Labor Day weekend​ had become a community fixture in the Pilsen neighborhood.

The man, whose age wasn't known, was in the 3000 block of West Polk Street around 10:13 a.m. when someone opened fire, Chicago police said.