The masked men who stormed a Bridle Path mansion last month — guns drawn, demanding valuables before shooting three members of a family — carried out an attack that was an outlier for its level of violence, but part of a broader surge in home invasions across Toronto.
The Bridle Path case is extreme — a shooting, a still-unresolved manhunt — but it’s far from unique. While several crime indicators are down across the GTA — and North America — there are some crimes that are on the rise across the region, including home invasions.
