Residents of an Etobicoke neighbourhood are on edge Saturday after a string of unsettling break-ins overnight.
Toronto police say three homes were broken into in the area of Enfield and Gort avenues near Brown’s Line and Lake Shore Boulevard around 2 a.m.
Two women told CP24 they awoke Friday night to find a masked man standing over them as they slept.
“I woke up, I don’t know why I woke up, and this man was standing right above my bed, right beside me, looking at me. He had a mask on so you couldn’t see his face. It was just little slits,” Maeve McCarthy said.
“I just started screaming. He ran out the back door that he came in and he closed it behind him… and I watched him hop the fence and then hop the other fence just like a gazelle. He was flying.”
Resident Ewa Garstka said she was also startled awake by a strange man in her bedroom Friday night.
She said her phone, money and some of her jewellery was stolen.
Over the past two years, police say there have been close to two dozen cases of women awakening in the middle of the night to find an unknown man in their bedrooms.
No description of the man was released and police say they do not know if the same suspect is linked to all break-ins.
Some of the women, police say, were sexually assaulted.
In one case, officers chased a male suspect on foot but were unable to apprehend him.
