Violence erupted in Chicago this Labor Day weekend with seven people slain and a further 35 injured.

The figures exceed the death count from 2018 which tallied four people murdered and 23 wounded.

On Saturday, a shooter in a car killed two men when they sprayed bullets towards the victim's front porch. Three more men were injured.

There was also a double shooting in Humboldt Park on the same day which claimed the life of 18-year-old Angel Perez. Willie Coker was also killed on Saturday while standing outside with a group of people.

A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot near his home on Sunday which was followed by another deadly shooting of a man at a party on the city's South Side.

The second fatal drive by happened on Sunday on the South West Side. One man was killed and another was seriously wounded.

15-year-old Davantae Jackson was pronounced dead on the sidewalk just a few steps outside his house in Chicago this Labor Day weekend. The bloodshed over the past few days has seen 37 people shot, seven of those fatally

Tracie Jackson, Davantae's mother (pictured above), said that she stepped out of her house to find her son laying in front of her dead. His sister said he was 'a very smart person'

According to ABC7, the 15-year-old boy's name was Davantae Jackson and he was found with six bullet wounds just steps away from his home on the sidewalk.

'I stepped out and see him laying right there,' his mother said.

'By the time I got to him, he was dead.'

Davantae's sister added: 'He was a very smart person,

'He is 15. Why would you want to kill him?'

The increase in gun violence comes despite police efforts to put more officers on the street this weekend in Chicago. The Mayor said that young people need to stop solving petty disputes with guns

This year's figures exceed the murder tally for the same weekend last year. In 2018, four people were killed and 23 were wounded

The increased Labor Day violence comes despite police attempts to flood the streets with additional officers in expectation of the bloodshed.

It also comes as official figures show a 23 per cent drop in the murder rate since 2018, the lowest number of murders and shootings since 2013.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke regarding the murders: 'We've got to teach young people that solving petty disputes with a firearm is not the way to go.'