Mystery surrounds the stabbing of two teens who called police within minutes of each other claiming to have been shot and who were found within a short walk of each other early Saturday.

Toronto Police Const. Craig Brister says the first call came in around 1 a.m. from a 16-year-old whom officers found at a corner of Keele St. and Rogers Rd. in the Silverthorne neighbourhood suffering from a serious cut to his arm, as well as one to his back.

Minutes later, at 1:04 a.m., a call came in from a 17-year-old who claimed to have been “shot in the back of the head,” Brister said.

Police arrived at a third-floor apartment on nearby Nashville Ave. to find the teen suffering from a slash to his back.

Brister said a “blood trail” was found outside the building, and the injured teen called police from inside the apartment unit.

Police are still trying to determine if the two cases are linked and if the boys know each other.

“Even though they are most likely connected, (investigators) are treating them as two separate incidents right now until such time as (they) can make definitive determination that they were connected,” Brister said.

The two teens are reportedly being unco-operative with police.

Brister couldn’t say if drugs or alcohol were involved, or why the teens said they’d been shot.

Brister said both were taken to hospital and are recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.

terry.davidson@sunmedia.ca