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A lunch-hour fight in a field near two high schools in a troubled part of northwest Toronto ended with two boys shot dead Monday. Just over an hour later, another battle near Regent Park, another disadvantaged area, ended with a man in his early 20s shot in the head and chest, and killed.

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Supt. Ron Taverner of Toronto police, standing with Det.-Sgt. Peter Trimble of the homicide squad, told reporters on Islington Avenue that one of the Etobicoke victims “was pronounced deceased at the scene. The other was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.”

Supt. Taverner said police had not yet identified the bodies. Later Monday a Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee, Maria Rizzo, confirmed that one of the dead in Etobicoke was a 15-year-old student at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School.

On Monday afternoon, six police cruisers stood in front of the Toronto Community Housing buildings at 2063 and 2067 Islington Ave. Women in hijabs sat on rocks out front, surrounded by shopping bags from No Frills. As police searched the building for suspects, they would not let tenants return to their homes.