{"id":953428,"date":"2026-10-31T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953428\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:12:17","slug":"toronto-police-identify-suspect-in-brutal-home-invasion-that-left-four-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953428\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Police Identify Suspect in Brutal Home Invasion That Left Four Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/daijohn-richards-ontario-home-invasion.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Toronto Police Identify Suspect in Brutal Home Invasion That Left Four Injured\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A violent home invasion in Toronto in which the occupants were shot or beaten with a hammer has shaken the region to the core but the Toronto Police Service is making headway in their investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Three people busted into the home, and encountered the four occupants, demanding valuables. <\/p>\n<p>Three victims \u2013 a 75-year-old man, a 26-year-old woman, and a 28-year-old daughter sustained gunshot wounds. The man, as well as a fourth victim, a 64-year-old woman, were struck with a hammer. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects then fled the area in a dark-coloured SUV, prior to police arrival.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects has been identified as Daijohn Richards, 23, of Toronto. He is wanted on a Canada Wide Warrant. <\/p>\n<p>No further suspect description is available for the other two suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hold Up Squad at 416-808-7350 or 33 Division at 416-808-3300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A violent home invasion in Toronto in which the occupants were shot or beaten with a hammer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,3302,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-953428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-toronto","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}