On this Friday, the 13th of November, it has been two weeks to the day since 23-year-old Richards, who was allegedly shot by one of his fellow suspects, checked himself out of hospital and managed to elude Toronto Police before they could get the evidence to detain him.
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His getting away means there are three armed and dangerous suspects on the lam out there, in the early Thursday morning of the Oct. 29 incident in which all four members of the Hyde Park Circle home were rushed to hospital.
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Three were shot in the melee, and the fourth was struck with a hammer.
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There is no new information so far on how mother Doriana Zohil-Morton and her daughters Cristina and Maggie, as well as the CEO of The Mac Group, dad David Morton, 75, are doing in their recoveries.
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Sources say one of the daughters has life-altering injuries.
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Police are holding their cards close on this case.
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Very little detail is being released in what is a very active probe.
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While a full motive has not been shared, police believe the allure of this home and neighbourhood.
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“There was a demand made for valuables from within the home,” said Toronto Police Holdup Insp. Kristy Smith.
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But the criminals who partake may have noticed.
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In this case, one of the alleged participants was allegedly shot by his own crew while in a car nearCornwall.
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Two alleged co-conspirators were charged by the OPP with second-degree murder even though they did not shoot their friends.
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Police are going to court on the premise that these suspects are allegedly responsible for the deaths of two teenage pals by putting themselves in a position that people could die.
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This has not been tested in court, but it does offer a change in law enforcement’s approach to trying to find ways of curbing home invasions.
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This one went international in that a family was victimized; it was in the most affluent part of the city, where music legend Drake and the late great Gordon Lightfoot and former newspaper baron Conrad Black are among the famous names who live in the neighbourhood.
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But the other reason is that this family chose not to let these thugs take what they wanted and chose to fight back.
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The result was not pretty, but it is believed the invaders did not get what they came for and even shot one of their own.
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Suspects shot fellow alleged home invader
Richards took a bullet in a shoulder.
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Just 40 minutes after the shooting took place in the Bridle Path, St. Joseph’s Hospital on the Queensway reported to police that a patient had shown up in Emergency with a gunshot wound.
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Police were investigating this, but with there being no information that a person beyond the victimized family was shot and no forensics to go on, they were not in a legal position to hold him like what would happen on a cop TV show.
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But they did expedite forensic work to see if there was a link, and within 24 hours they determined there was a link, but by that time Richards had been discharged from hospital – earlier than they were expecting.
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While there was a lot of criticism toward police on this decision, it did not come from me because I understood detectives wanted to hold the possible suspect but were hamstrung by the law and Charter Rights.
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Demkiw defended his officers
Chief Myron Demkiw defended his team, but what he couldn’t say, but that I can, is that police did have investigative eyes on Richards and were watching him closely but managed to give them the slip before they were able to legally nab him.
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It’s a problem for the community but not solely the fault of the police, as some suggest.
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It’s so easy to second-guess.
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It’s not a television drama, after all.
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That said, it’s been two weeks, and there has been a lot of silence.
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It’s not clear if the police know the identity of the other two, but it is known there have been reports that Richards was seen exiting an apartment building with a travel bag.
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Did he manage to leave town or the country altogether?
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With everybody looking for these shooters, it can’t be easy for them to move around.
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