19-year-old National Guard soldier Chrys Carvajal was among the 14 killed in Chicago over the July 4 weekend
US streets were bathed in blood over Independence Day weekend with 142 killed in 379 separate shootings, with Chicago and Philadelphia among the locations worst-hit.
Chicago suffered the greatest bloodshed, with at least 92 shootings over the long weekend. That saw 16 killed and 76 injured.
National Guard soldier Chrys Carvajal, 19, is the only victim so-far named. He was shot while attending a house party after coming home to visit his family for the Independence Day celebrations.
'My brother. He was all of life. He had a bright future in front of him,' Carvajal's sister Jennifer Ramirez told ABC 7.
Ramirez told ABC 7 that her brother was gunned down in a drive-by shooting when he went outside to grab something. A motive is unclear.
Others who survived shootings in the Windy City included children as young as five and six, with others shot in the 12 to 30 age bracket, the Chicago Sun Times, reported.
Two cops were among the city's shooting victims. The unidentified officers were shot in the early hours of Monday while trying to disperse a crowd in the city's Washington Park.
They were rushed to hospital, and are expected to survive their injuries.
Philadelphia saw a total of 17 people shot over the weekend, with 21 injured, and seven killed.
Eleven people were shot, four died and another was stabbed during a six hour orgy of violence in Philadelphia during July 4 celebrations.
Six of those 11 shot were teenagers aged between 15 and 19.
The grim toll included a double murder where more than 100 shots rang out.
Shortly after 10:30pm on Sunday, more than 100 bullets ripped through a West Philadelphia barbeque, hitting 22-year-old Sincarr Johnson Jr. in the head, a 23-year-old man multiple times in the torso and a 16-year-old girl in the butt and leg.
Johnson Jr. and the 23-year-old, who hasn't been identified, died. The teenager is in stable condition, police said.
On Saturday, three people were fatally shot, including a six-year-old boy in the Northeast section of the city.
Chicago Police are filmed on the beat Sunday night, after the Windy City saw 92 people struck by bullets during the long weekend
Hundreds of teenagers descended on Chicago's downtown Loop area on Sunday night. Two of the city's cops were shot while trying to disperse young people from another area
One of the victims was Sincarr Johnson Jr, 23, pictured here. He died after more than 100 bullets ripped through a West Philly barbecue on Sunday
Loved-ones console each other after Sincarr Johnson, 23, became one of seven people shot dead in Philadelphia over the July 4 weekend
Johnson was shot dead in this Philadelphia street, with the city plagued by shootings over the long weekend
This was one of 100 bullets found in a West Philadelphia shooting that left two dead and one injured
This map shows the locations of all 379 shootings known to have hit the United States over the July 4 weekend
Two teenagers are dead, and three bystanders were wounded in a late-night July 4 shooting in Cincinnati's Smale Riverfront Park
There's no motive for the attack. Officials believe there were at least three shooters.
They also killed an unnamed 18-year-old, who was shot 13 times in the West Oak Lane section of the city, as well as a 21-year-old, who was shot multiple times in the abdomen and thigh in
