By Sumayya
The CEO of a Toronto real estate services company, his wife, and their daughters were some of the people hurt during a violent break-in and robbery at a house in the city’s Bridle Path neighborhood early Thursday morning, CP24 has found out.
Police have said before that three masked suspects carrying handguns and a hammer broke into the house on Hyde Park Circle, which is near Bayview and Lawrence avenues, at about 3:45 a.m.
Investigators said that the suspects faced a husband, a wife, and their two adult daughters inside the building.
The police have not shared the names of the victims, but CP24 has now learned that David Morton, who is the chief executive officer of a company called The Mac Group, and his wife Doriana Zohil-Morton, were some of the people inside the house.
On its website, The Mac Group describes its business as a “family of companies helping individuals, families, large businesses, and global moving partners,” which includes a real estate buying and selling business and a furnished apartment rental business. The violent break-in happened on a quiet, tree-lined street that ends in a loop, located in one of Toronto’s richest neighborhoods.
Police have called the event “frightening and upsetting,” and they have promised to use a lot of tools and workers to catch the people who did it and bring them to court.
“This attack has clearly scared the neighborhood and many people living across Toronto. This kind of violence is not allowed in our city,” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said in a message on social media on Thursday.
New information shared
Very little information was given out on Thursday about why the suspects chose to break into this specific home, but by Friday afternoon, a clearer picture of what happened began to show.
Sources have told CP24 that the masked suspects walked up to the second floor of the house, where they went straight into bedrooms belonging to the victims.
In a news statement on Friday, police said that the suspects demanded expensive items before getting into a physical fight with the people living in the home.
Police said that multiple guns were shot, and three victims—a 75-year-old man, a 26-year-old woman, and a 28-year-old woman—all received gunshot injuries.
The man was also hit with a hammer, and a 64-year-old woman was hit with a hammer as well.
All four victims were taken quickly to the hospital. Two of them stayed in the hospital with what were described as life-changing injuries as of Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the three suspects ran away from the area in a dark-colored SUV and have not been caught yet. On Friday, police shared descriptions of all three suspects as they asked the public for any information about the case.
All three are described as males who are around 20 years old, and they were last seen wearing dark clothes and face masks. Police said that the suspects should be thought of as “armed and dangerous.”
The Bridle Path event was the 119th home break-in reported to Toronto police so far this year. That number is 32.2 percent higher compared to the exact same period in the year 2025.
In a statement shared on social media on Friday, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said that the effect of the break-in on the family has been “terrible,” but he added that the “effect on our neighborhoods is also very real.”
“I want the people of Toronto to know that we are not stopping in our work to find and chase the people who did this. Some of our most experienced investigators and special teams are checking every piece of information to bring the people involved to justice and stop more harm,” he said.
Demkiw said that people living in the neighborhood can expect to see more police officers in the area over the next few days.
