The mother of a 17-year-old boy who was fatally shot in Etobicoke on Monday says she is struggling to come to grips with her son’s violent death.

Zaid Yousif, who attended Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School, was one of two teenagers gunned down behind the The School of Experiential Education near Islington Avenue and Dixon Road at around 12:30 p.m. on Monday. The crime scene was just a short distance from Don Bosco.

Family and friends have identified the second victim as Michael Menjivar, a 15-year-old student at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School.

“I swear he don’t even drink, he don’t even smoke. When he go out he come home before it got dark,” Jina Samouie said of her son Yousif during an interview with CTV News Tuesday afternoon. “He listened to me. I don’t know why God has taken him from me. I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know.”

Samouie fought back tears as she discussed her son on Tuesday, saying Yousif was a “good boy” with a future.

“All his work was A-plus and he told me ‘Mom I want to make you happy,’” she said. “Just Sunday night we were sitting here and he ask me ‘Mom, what university do you want me to go? Engineer or lawyer?’ I said ‘Whatever you like go but I want a good future for you.’”

Police are continuing to investigate the murder of Yousif and Menjivar.

Meanwhile, school officials at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School and Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School are doing their best to help students and staff cope with the tragedy.

"We are trying to keep things as calm and as normal as possible for students so they feel like they have a safe haven to come to,” Angela Gauthier, director of education for the Toronto Catholic District School Board, told CP24 earlier in the day. “Certainly they are aware of the incidents, the tragedies, and we a have crisis intervention team helping students and staff deal with that. It is inconceivable that a parent has to bury a child. Staff is very sensitive to that."

The flag at Don Bosco was lowered to half-mast in memory of the two teens Tuesday.

One person was taken into custody on Monday but police say they were released without being charged. Police say they are hoping to release images of three 'persons of interest' tomorrow. Investigators previously told reporters that they believe the shooting was “targeted.”

After reviewing video surveillance footage, officers say there are witnesses who have not yet come forward and anyone with information is urged to contact police.

Gauthier said that the TCDSB plans to do its own analysis of the incident.

"Once we’ve dealt with the immediate shock and the grieving period, we will be sitting down as team to see what … middle and long-term measures we need to put into place both to continue the healing process and to do an analysis of if there was anything that could have been done," she said.

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