The suspect walked into a hospital after the Oct. 29 home invasion with a gunshot wound, which investigators believe one of his accomplices gave him

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Police have named one of the suspects wanted in the violent Toronto home invasion in which a real estate CEO and his family were shot and attacked with a hammer.

The suspect — one of three whom Canadian authorities are searching for in connection with the Oct. 29 incident at The Mac Group CEO David Morton’s home — has been identified as Daijohn Richards of Toronto, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) said in a news release on Saturday, Oct. 31. Police said a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Richards, 23, “may show apparent signs of a shoulder injury,” the TPS said, as investigators believe he was accidentally shot by one of his accomplices during the home invasion. Kristy Smith, an inspector of the TPS’ Hold Up squad, said in a press conference that Richards walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound on Oct. 29, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

“Richards was shot in the right shoulder, and as such, he may be experiencing pain or discomfort in that area, and people may look to see him favoring that side of his body,” Smith said, per the CBC. She also confirmed that police interacted with Richards at the hospital on Oct. 29, but did not have enough information to arrest him before his release.

Toronto Police later clarified on X that investigators immediately recognized the potential connection between Richards and the home invasion, but said that “recognizing a potential suspect and having enough evidence to arrest them are two different things.”

“Suspicion alone isn’t enough,” police said in a post on Friday, Oct. 30. “Police need reasonable grounds, supported by evidence, to make an arrest.”

Richards is wanted on a warrant for four counts of discharging a firearm with intent to wound, four counts of robbery with a firearm and three counts of aggravated assault, as well as one count each of break and enter commit/dwelling-house, possess prohibited device and disguise with intent.

The TPS also released an image of Richards in Saturday’s news release, urging anyone with information to “contact the Hold Up Squad at 416-808-7350 or 33 Division at 416-808-3300.”

No further description was given for the other two suspects. All three are considered armed and dangerous, police said.

The three suspects are alleged to be behind the home invasion of Morton’s residence in Toronto’s Bridle Path neighborhood in the early hours of Oct. 29, which left him and his wife and two daughters hospitalized.

At approximately 3:40 a.m. local time, three suspects armed with firearms and a hammer forced entry into the home and demanded valuables before getting into “an altercation with the occupants of the home,” who were identified as a 75-year-old man and three women, ages 26, 28 and 64. The man and two younger women sustained gunshot wounds during the struggle, while the man and the 64-year-old woman were struck with a hammer.

The Toronto Sun has identified the victims as Morton, his wife Doriana Zohil-Morton and his daughters Cristina and Maggie, but police have yet to publicly confirm the victims’ identities.

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Morton released a statement addressing the “terrifying” home invasion on behalf of his family on Friday, writing in part, “It is difficult to put into words the trauma of experiencing something so horrific in the one place where everyone should feel safest: their own home.”

“No family should ever have to experience this,” the real estate CEO said. “People should be able to sleep peacefully in their homes without fear of armed individuals breaking in and threatening their lives.”