Just over a week after the midday fatal shooting of two teenage boys steps from a Toronto high school, police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old boy with attempted murder, along with numerous other weapons offences.

The attempted murder charge does not relate to either of the teens’ deaths, according to Toronto police spokesperson Mark Pugash.

Pugash said he could not provide any additional details about the charge, citing the ongoing homicide investigation.

Police are releasing little information about the Oct. 6 deaths of 15-year-old Michael Menjivar and 17-year-old Zaid Youssef, high school students who were gunned in North Etobicoke around noon, after lunch let out at nearby Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School.

In a news release issued Wednesday, police announced the 17-year-old boy’s charges “in connection” to the two homicides. The boy, who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he is younger than 18, also faces various weapons charges, including pointing a firearm, weapons dangerous to the public peace, failure to comply (recognizance), possession of a firearm without a valid licence, and the possession of a firearm without a permit.

He appeared in court Wednesday morning for a bail hearing.

Witnesses said Menjivar and Youssef were shot after a fight broke out in the Don Bosco parking lot shortly after noon, then moved across Islington Ave. to nearby Fairhaven Park.

Youssef, a student at Don Bosco, and Menjivar, who attended North York’s James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School, were killed behind high rise apartment buildings along Islington Ave. and just steps from another high school, the School of Experiential Education.

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The homicides spawned a wide-scale police search of the North Etobicoke area, as well as hold-and-secure and lock-downs at four neighbourhood schools.

The boys’ grieving families say police have told them their sons were not the intended targets of the shooting. Menjivar’s father, Gulston Andrew, told the Star last week that his son travelled to Don Bosco to see a fight that he had heard about on Twitter.

Both families held funerals for their sons over the Thanksgiving weekend.

“He was my only son, he was the best son I could ever have,” Gulston said outside the visitation held for his son last week.