Youths charged in shooting death of Toronto teen

Two17-year-old boys have been charged with first-degree murder in last week's school shootingdeath of a Toronto teenager, police said Sunday.

Police said they made an arrest early Sunday when they raidedthe home ofa friend of one of the suspects while everyone there was still sleeping, CBC News reported.

"They came in," the friend's mother said. "We justjumped off thebed.… Everybody was real frightened."

Theteenager, whose name cannot be disclosed under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is scheduled to appear Monday in a Toronto court.

Later Sunday, police said another 17-year-old surrendered.Earlier in the day, the teen'sname and photograph weremade public for several hours after police were granted judicial authorization.

The victim, Jordan Manners, 15, was shot in the chest and killed Wednesday at his high school, C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, near the Jane-Finch corridor, an area of Toronto with a high crime rate.

Several hours after the first police raid, police arrested four other people, three men and a woman, CBC News reported.Three of the four were later released, but a man remains in custody.

Police declined to say whether his arrest was connected with Manners's murder.

More details will be made public at a news conference on Monday, police said.

A day after the school shooting, Ontario politiciansurged the federal government to get tough on handguns.

Politicians urge greater gun control

"We have seen too many shootings result in too many funerals for our young people," Premier Dalton McGuinty wrote in an open letter to federal party leaders, urging them to push through proposed criminal justice legislation and implement a "real ban" on handguns.

The value of allowing handgun collections should be reconsidered, said Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant.

Toronto Mayor David Miller called for an outright ban and recommended that handgun regulation should become an international issue.

"We know that there [are]two sources of guns used in Toronto: One is guns that are stolen from collectors, and the other is guns that come from the U.S.," Miller said.

"The U.S. has to take some real steps, otherwise we're going to keep seeing tragedies."

Handguns are already severely restricted in Canada, and a handgun registry has been in force for more than 60 years.

Schools don't want metal detectors

The shooting also saw the finger of blame pointed at lax school security.

The Toronto District School Board doesn'tplan to install metal detectors, board assistant superintendent Donna Quan said Thursday.

Metal detectors aren't foolproof, and students can bypass them by taking different doors, she said.

C.W. Jefferys is already on a list of Toronto schools scheduled to have security cameras installed.

Of the 109 high schools in the Toronto District School Board, 65 have security cameras.

Manners' friends and family gathered at a park near his home on Saturday to pay tribute to the gifted arts student.

In addition to the music and food, there was also a small donation box to raise funds for the boy's funeral.

A service is scheduled for Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Christian Centre Church in Toronto.