A 40-year-old man is dead and another man in his 20s is battling death in hospital after two people were shot in a school parking lot near Mississauga.

Peel County police were called to the Montevideo Road and Lorca Crescent area near Winston Churchill Boulevard and Derry Road on a report of a shooting at around 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Police said there was a gathering in the parking lot of Settlers Green Public School at the time of the shooting. Many people frequent the neighborhood late at night, and according to a neighbor, an argument was heard before the gunshots rang out.

Investigators believe about 20 people gathered in the parking lot late Wednesday night. There is currently no suspicious information.

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