A teenager is dead after a shooting near Markham and Ellesmere Roads in Scarborough Monday afternoon.

Paramedics transported a male victim to a trauma centre where he succumbed to his injuries.

Police received calls around 3:15 p.m. reporting multiple gunshots, according to Toronto police Const. Alex Li.

Once there, police located a “young male victim with a gunshot wound.”

Another male is in police custody.

The Toronto Homicide Squad has taken over the case, according to police.