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   At least 58 people have been shot, eight fatally, across Chicago over   
   Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims   
   wounded, according to police.   
      
   The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed   
   threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago over   
   the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon   
   Johnson.   
      
   Trump on Saturday sent a warning to Pritzker in a post on his social   
   media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying Pritzker   
   "better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!"   
      
   Pritzker, a Democrat, responded in a news conference a week ago to an   
   earlier Trump threat to "straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C.,"   
   by saying that the president's plan was "unprecedented and unwarranted.   
   It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is un-American."   
      
   Johnson responded last week by saying in part that he had "grave   
   concerns about the impact of any unlawful deployment of National Guard   
   troops to the city of Chicago," and calling Trump's approach   
   "uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound." Johnson also said that   
   deploying the National Guard in Chicago could "inflame tensions between   
   residents and law enforcement."   
      
   On Saturday, Johnson signed an executive order dubbed the "Protecting   
   Chicago Initiative," which he described in a news conference as "the   
   most sweeping campaign of any city in the country to protect ourselves   
   from the threats and actions of this out-of-control administration" and   
   which "directs our department of law to pursue any and every legal   
   mechanism to hold this administration accountable for violating the   
   rights of Chicagoans."   
      
   "We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before   
   our city sees some type of militarized activity by the federal   
   government," Johnson said, in part. "We take these threats seriously and   
   we find ourselves in a position where we must take immediate, drastic   
   action to protect our people from federal overreach."   
      
   At least 37 separate shootings occurred in Chicago between 6 p.m. Friday   
   and 11:59 p.m. Monday, according to a review by ABC News of police   
   incident reports published online.   
      
   The victims included a 17-year-old girl who was inside her home when a   
   bullet came through a front window and hit her in the arm, a 31-year-old   
   man who was shot in the leg after getting caught in the crossfire of   
   gunmen shooting at each other from two vehicles, and two people who shot   
   and injured while driving down a street, all according to the incident   
   reports.   
      
   Fewer than five hours after Trump posted a message on social media on   
   Saturday criticizing Pritzker's handling of crime in Chicago, a mass   
   shooting occurred in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago's South   
   Side that left seven people wounded.   
      
   "He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming!" Trump said in his   
   post about Pritzker.   
      
   The shooting in Bronzeville occurred about 11:10 p.m. on Saturday on   
   South State Street, according to police. A group of people were gathered   
   outside in the area when a vehicle drove by and at least one occupant   
   opened fire on the crowd. All seven people shot, five men and two women   
   ranging in age from 28 to 32, were taken to hospitals with   
   non-life-threatening injuries to their lower extremities, police said.   
   No suspects have been arrested.   
      
   The first of eight homicides that police say occurred over the long   
   holiday weekend happened at 11:56 p.m. on Friday at the South Shore   
   apartment complex on East Essex Street, where two women were discovered   
   shot, according to police.   
      
   A 25-year-old woman was found in the apartment suffering from two   
   gunshot wounds to her stomach and one to her leg, according to a police   
   incident report. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical   
   Center where she was pronounced dead, according to authorities. The   
   victim's name was not immediately released.   
      
   The second victim, a 23-year-old woman, suffered gunshot wounds to both   
   legs and was in fair condition at the University of Chicago Medical   
   Center.   
      
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   Investigators were interviewing a person of interest in the East Essex   
   Street homicide but no arrests have been announced, according to police.   
      
   Elsewhere, two men were shot, one fatally, in the East Garfield Park   
   neighborhood of Chicago around 11 a.m. on Saturday, according to police.   
   The victims were standing outside on North Sawyer Avenue when a dark SUV   
   approached them and a gunman exited the vehicle and opened fire,   
   according to a police incident report.   
      
   A 29-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, was shot   
   multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced   
   dead, according to police. The second victim, a 32-year-old man,   
   suffered a gunshot wound to his right side and was in stable condition   
   at Mount Sinai, police said. No arrests have been announced in the   
   incident.   
      
   Also on Saturday, gunfire erupted in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood.   
   Around 7:46 p.m., a 43-year-old woman was standing outside on E. 131st   
   Street when five armed men approached her and opened fire, striking her   
   multiple times, according to police. The victim, whose name was not   
   immediately released, was taken to Christ Hospital where she was   
   pronounced dead, police said.   
      
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   Washington, DC No arrests have been announced in the Altgeld Gardens   
   homicide.   
      
   Around 1:39 a.m. on Sunday, a 46-year-old man, whose name was not   
   immediately released, was killed in a triple shooting that occurred in   
   the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago's Lower West Side, according to   
   police. The victims were standing on West 17th Street when a gunman   
   walked up to them and opened fire, police said.   
      
   The two other victims, a 41-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, suffered   
   gunshot wounds to their legs and were in good condition at Mount Sinai   
   Hospital, police said.   
      
   MORE: Trump sets sights on Chicago to make it 'safer,' seeks $2B to   
   'beautify' DC Around 2:52 a.m. on Sunday, a 33-year-old man was killed   
   in the West Inglewood neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago,   
   police said. The victim got into a argument inside a residence with a   
   man who shot him in the head, according to police. The victim, whose   
   name was not immediately released, was pronounced dead at the scene,   
   according to police. No arrests were announced.   
      
   The violence continued Sunday night as police launched two more homicide   
   investigations.   
      
   A 26-year-old woman was fatally shot around 7:28 p.m. on Sunday in the   
   Pullman neighborhood on Chicago's South Side after getting into a verbal   
      
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