Counsellors on hand at Toronto school after shooting

The Toronto school where a 15-year-old student was gunned down on Wednesday will reopen its doors on Thursday morning so students can speak to grief counsellors.

The counsellors will be on hand at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute to help students cope with the death of Grade 9 student Jordan Manners, who died from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was found at about 2:30 p.m. wounded in a school hallway and died later at Sunnybrook Hospital.

Students were locked inside their classrooms for more than four hours following the shooting while police searched for the shooter and the gun.

Police have no suspects, and said little on Wednesday night about a possible motive for the shooting.

There were reports of a fight outside the school just before the fatal shooting.

Toronto's plague of gun violence, which simmered in recent months through a steady rattle of street shootings, tore into a North York school Wednesday, leaving a teenager dead and a city stunned.

Jordan Manners, 15, was fatally shot in a mid-afternoon attack that triggered a massive police hunt for the killer and brought frantic parents streaming to the campus.

The dead boy, whose birthday was last Friday, was described by weeping friends and stunned neighbours as a popular, trustworthy youth who was well known and liked in his community on Shoreham Court in the Jane Street and Finch Avenue area.