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Two in custody, two outstanding after gun call at Scarborough high school

Replica weapon located: Cops

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Two people have been taken into custody and another two remain outstanding following reports of a person with a gun inside a Scarborough high school on Thursday.

Toronto Police later said they found a replica firearm inside the school.

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Officers responded to the gun call at David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Insititute, northeast of Midland and Lawrence Aves., around 1 p.m.

The school was placed in lockdown along with neighbouring Donwood Junior Public School, followed by four more area schools: Lloyd Roberts Junior Public School, Charles Gordon Senior Public School, Edgewood Public School and Northern College.

Students and staff at the affected schools were allowed to leave once the lockdowns were lifted later in the afternoon.

No injuries have been reported.

“I can tell you that we have located one replica firearm inside the school that we believe is connected to this and we have two people that we have detained at the moment,” acting Insp. Jason Albanese told reporters at the scene, adding the investigation remains “very active.”

Albanese said the detained pair are “affiliated to the school in some way” and that “multiple people” are involved in this incident.

It’s the latest incident to happen at a Toronto school in recent weeks.

An 18-year-old was killed in a shooting outside Woburn Collegiate in Scarborough on Oct. 31 and a stabbing at Scarborough’s Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute left a 17-year-old critical injured on Nov. 14.

David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Insititute was also the scene of a fatal shooting that left left 18-year-old Jahiem Robinson dead last February.

A 14-year-old boy was charged with murder and attempted murder in that deadly shooting.