TORONTO — A student has been taken into police custody after reports of a person being seen with a gun at Flemingden Park school on Thursday afternoon.
They were first dispatched to the Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute near Don Mills Road and Overlea Boulevard around 12:25 p.m., police said regarding a gun call.
As a result, schools went into lockdown, although the order has since been lifted.
Nearby Valley Park Middle School was also temporarily placed under a security order after some students at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute sought safety there, police said.
“There was information that a gun was seen in the school. That's the information we have this time. I can't comment on the circumstances that led up to the events,” Insp. Lori Kranenburg told reporters at the scene. “All I can tell you is that we were called here for a person with a gun, that an investigation was commenced and that one student was taken into custody. Charges have not yet been laid.”
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Police have not released any further details about the incident, including whether a weapon was seized.
However, the video provided to CTV News and CP24 purportedly shows the events that led to the lockdown.
In it, several students appear to be fighting in a gymnasium. One person can then be heard repeatedly yelling: "he has a gun, he has a gun."
The footage then shows students leaving the gymnasium.
The school was locked down "for the safety of staff and students," Kranenburg said.
She said that while there was "information that a gun was seen in the school," police could not confirm whether there were actually guns at the time.
"The investigation is continuing," she said.
Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute's closure Thursday was the latest gun-related call to a TDSB school.
Source: cp24
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