Forty-four people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, seven of them fatally, bringing the total number of gun violence victims in the city this year to more than 1,650.



At least 282 of them died of their wounds, nearly 100 more than the year before, according to data kept by the Chicago Tribune.



The deadliest stretch of the weekend was between 6 p.m. Saturday and 5:25 a.m. Sunday, when three people were killed and at least 17 others were wounded, according to police.



A 17-year-old boy was killed in Back of the Yards around 10:20 p.m. Saturday, and two men were slain around 1 a.m. Sunday on the front steps of a home in the Brainerd neighborhood. One of the men was in town from Wisconsin to attend the funeral of a friend who was shot to death earlier, according to a family member.



Three more men were killed and at least 13 people, including a 5-year-old girl, were hurt in shootings between Friday evening and Saturday morning, according to police.



A stray bullet hit the 5-year-old in the foot while she was in front of a home with a 34-year-old woman in Marquette Park around 8:10 p.m. Friday.



A 26-year-old man was shot to death around 8:45 p.m. Friday and, less than an hour later, a 27-year-old man was killed, police said. An 18-year-old Hazel Crest man was shot dead in West Chatham at 1:30 a.m. Saturday.



From Sunday morning to early Monday, a man was killed and seven others were wounded. The 32-year-old man, a father of three, was discovered shot to death around 8:35 a.m. Sunday in the driver's seat of a BMW in the Englewood neighborhood.