Drive-By Gunfire Wounds 2 : Violence: One youth is in critical condition after being struck between the eyes while he and a companion were waiting for friends in front of Rosemead High School.

Two teen-agers waiting for friends were wounded in a drive-by shooting in front of Rosemead High School on Wednesday as school let out and crowds of students poured off campus.

The victims, who did not attend Rosemead High, were shot at 1:40 p.m. as they stood on Mission Drive across from the school. Sheriff’s deputies are looking for two males and say the shootings may have been gang-related.

Leigh Skinner, 19, was hit between the eyes and is listed in critical condition at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center. Frankie Molina, 17, was shot in the buttocks and was listed in good condition at the Greater El Monte Community Hospital.

“It’s not a very good start,” Assistant Principal Dan Morris said at the campus, as he held a walkie-talkie and supervised students’ departure on the fifth day of classes. “But it could have happened anywhere. They’re not our kids.”

Sheriff’s Sgt. Louis Duran said the gunmen shouted obscenities as they pulled up beside the victims, fired up to six shots and sped away in a yellow 1980 Toyota.

The shooting left the two teen-agers sprawled on the sidewalk, but Molina was able to walk to the school nurse’s office for help, authorities said.

For Iris Loo, a 15-year-old freshman, it was an inauspicious welcome to Rosemead High. “It frightens me,” she said. “You can just be walking by and one day, it could happen to you too.”

Another girl, who was too frightened to give her name, agreed. “People are scared to come out of their classrooms. It’s scary to even walk around out here,” she said.

School officials plan to bring in psychologists to counsel students this week and to increase supervision as school lets out.

Morris said school officials would instruct students not to loiter near the school: “We’re going to send them on their way home so they won’t be sitting ducks.”

Times staff writer Vicki Torres contributed to this story.