Toronto police identify Bridle Path home invasion suspect

Early morning Thursday, just before 4 a.m., police say they got a call that three people broke into the back door of a home and attacked four adults, a father, mother, their two adult children, using a handgun and a hammer. Some have life-altering injuries. Thankfully not life-threatening injuries. That is the good news. The father is the head of a Toronto real estate group, Mac Group. 75-year-old David Morton along with his two adult daughters were shot. He and his wife also hit in the head with a hammer. Police described this as an appalling The level of violence that happened as the family was just sleeping in their home. Police had been looking for three suspects. We knew that. But now they've identified one of the people that they say they're looking for. His name is Dijon Richards, 23 years old. Interestingly enough, they say on the morning of the home invasion, Richards walked into hospital with a gunshot wound. They believe that he was shot in the right shoulder by one of the other suspects. And as is protocol in that case. Police were contacted. Police attended the hospital. They interviewed him and then the hospital discharged him early yesterday afternoon. Just a few hours later, police say that they made the link that this was one of the people that they were looking for. And now. When someone walks into a hospital, there's a lot of things that need to happen in the period of time from when we become aware of them to us forming the reasonable grounds that we need to make an arrest and link that person to the crime of this home invasion. So through hard work and diligent investigation, including our partners at the Centre for Forensic Science and excellent canvassing of officers out in the community, we were able to make that link. Still looking for two other suspects who fled the scene in a dark-coloured SUV, wearing dark clothing, masks, in their 20s. Not much to go on there.