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One male is dead and another taken to hospital after a double shooting outside Scarborough’s Woburn Collegiate on Monday. The gunfire placed the Scarborough school on lockdown — leaving students and parents in terror — shortly after the school day had ended.

It’s the second fatal shooting incident outside the school in two years.

Toronto police said that one person was pronounced dead at hospital and another person was in serious condition. A police spokesperson said it wasn’t yet clear if they were students of the school or what their ages were, but were believed to be teenagers.

Nazia Khan’s daughter texted her something no parent wants to receive: “Mom, it’s really scary. We are locked down,” the mother of the Grade 10 student told the Star.

Khan and her husband, who live nearby, raced to the school, as it was being surrounded with heavily-armed police officers and yellow crime scene tape. They couldn’t get close or see their daughter outside and police had no information for them.

So Khan took to Twitter, posting a video of what she’d seen.

Her daughter told her it was feared the shooter had ran inside the school after an altercation outside, but police have yet to provide any details of the incident.

“We are really quiet,” Khan’s daughter told her by text. “It is so scary, seriously,” Khan said, her voice shaking.

Khan texted later she was reunited with her daughter just after 5 p.m. and gave her girl a big hug. “Thank God my baby is safe.”

Nearby resident Leorah Collins was working from home when she heard four shots outside of her window followed by screams and shouting to “call the police!” at around 3:20 p.m.

Minutes later, officers descended on the scene and cordoned off the area with crime scene tape.

At first, Collins believed the shots to be a prank by high-schoolers, but quickly realized it was all too real and took cover with her young son, away from windows.

“I initially thought it was fireworks for Halloween … but by the third shot, I realized it was actually gunshots. I was shocked … it was disheartening to hear the screams and crying,” said Collins.

The school went into lockdown just before 3:30 p.m. and the Toronto District School Board announced an end to the lockdown around 5:15 p.m.

Police were looking for one suspect who fled the Ellesmere and Markham Roads area westbound. The suspect was described as a Black male, wearing a black jacket and some kind of mask related to COVID-19.

Politicians took to social media to express their sorrow over the incident. Among them, Mayor John Tory, who said he intended to sit down with police and school board officials to see what more could be done to ensure safety around schools.

“Any gun violence is unacceptable but it is even more frustrating to know someone would carry a gun (let) alone pull the trigger anywhere near a school,” he tweeted.

Bill Blair, the MP for Scarborough Southwest and a former Toronto police chief and federal minister of public safety, tweeted his “heart goes out to all those impacted by this horrible tragedy.”

In other recent shooting incidents:

• Schools in the Danforth area were temporarily placed on hold-and-secure late last Friday after a man was shot dead during the day in the Byron-Donlands Avenue area.

• Toronto Police were deemed justified by the Special Investigations Unit in September in the fatal shooting of a man earlier in the year who was carrying a pellet gun outside Scarborough’s William G. Davis Junior Public School.

• Earlier this year, Grade 12 student Jahiem Robinson was killed after being shot inside another Scarborough school, David and Mary Thompson Collegiate Institute.

The 18-year-old died in an “execution” style killing as students were preparing to leave for the day in February.

Police said at the time the suspect had tried to shoot a second teen, but the gun didn’t fire.

A 14-year-old has been changed with first-degree murder in the attack.

• Two years ago, a 15-year-old boy was also shot to death outside Woburn. Safiullah Khosrawi had just left school on Jan. 21, 2020, and was walking toward home when gunfire rang out.

He was among a crowd at Markham and Ellesmere roads when struck and died later in hospital.

“It’s devastating news that nobody should ever face in their life,” said Sha Fariad, a relative of Khosrawi’s parents and three older brothers.

A fellow Woburn student, also just 15, was charged with second-degree murder.

With files from Alex Boyd and Janiece Campbell