Toronto police defend letting a gunshot-wounded suspect walk free from hospital after a CEO's family was shot in a mansion raid

Daijohn Richards, 23, was questioned by Toronto Police at St. Joseph's Health Centre on October 29 after checking himself in with a gunshot wound to his shoulder — the same night three masked men stormed the $2.1 million Bridle Path mansion of MAC Group CEO David Morton, 75, shooting three family members and attacking others with a hammer. Officers held "a number of interactions" with Richards but lacked sufficient evidence to arrest him before he was discharged, and he vanished before police named him a suspect on Saturday.

Richards is now wanted Canada-wide on charges including robbery with a firearm, aggravated assault, and four counts of discharging a firearm with intent to wound.

Inspector Kristy Smith defended the decision, saying police need "reasonable and probable grounds" by law — not mere suspicion — before making any arrest.

Morton's wife Doriana Zohil-Morton and their adult daughters were among those attacked; one furious commenter wrote: 'The system had him in a hospital bed, and now he's GONE.'