TORONTO: A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six individuals he lived with, together with a 2 1/2-month-old child lady and three different children from a Sri Lankan household, Ottawa police stated Thursday.
Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs stated an “edged weapon” or “knife-like object” was utilized by the suspect, who was recognized as Febrio De-Zoysa.He has been charged with six counts of first-degree homicide and one rely of tried homicide. Mass killings are uncommon in Canada.
Stubbs stated the deceased are Sri Lankan nationals who lately got here to Canada. He stated they embody a 35-year-old mom, a 7-year-old son, a 4-year-old daughter, a 2-year-old daughter and the two 1/2-month-old child lady in addition to a 40-year-old acquaintance of the household.
The police chief stated when the primary officers arrived on the house the household’s father was outdoors and screaming for somebody to name 911. Police obtained two emergency calls at 10.52pm Wednesday.
The daddy is in hospital with critical, however non-life-threatening, accidents.
“This was a mindless act of violence perpetrated on purely harmless individuals,” Stubbs stated.
Sri Lanka’s excessive fee stated that it’s in contact with family members within the nation’s capital, Colombo.
De-Zoysa made a quick look in court docket Thursday and mumbled his assent because the justice of the peace ordered him to not communicate to the daddy who survived the assault or to 4 different witnesses who supplied statements to the police.
His case was adjourned till March 13 to offer him time to discover a lawyer.
Police have been known as to the house within the Barrhaven space simply earlier than 11pm Wednesday night time. The suspect was arrested rapidly after that, and police stated there was no persevering with risk to public security.
Don Perera, a neighbor, stated he met the household that lived within the house final fall at a Halloween celebration on the close by Catholic elementary college. He stated the daddy was from Sri Lanka.
Shanti Ramesh, who lives throughout the road, was alerted to a commotion late Wednesday. From her balcony, she noticed a person sitting on the driveway of the house and yelling earlier than two law enforcement officials arrived and carried him away.
On Thursday morning, 5 marked police automobiles have been parked on the road and in driveways close to the house, which is a center unit of a row of brick townhouses.
A number of individuals in white jumpsuits have been going out and in of the house all through the early morning, whereas mother and father and children walked and biked by on their approach to a close-by elementary college.
“Our first reactions are all ones of shock and horror at this horrible violence,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated.
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe known as the information distressing for all town’s residents.
“It is laborious to consider,” he stated. “It is devastating and heartbreaking.”
Police have recognized the victims as Darshani Banbaranayake Gama Walwwe Darshani Dilanthika Ekanyake, the 35-year-old mom; Inuka Wickramasinghe, a 7-year-old boy; Ashwini Wickramasinghe, a 4-year-old daughter, Rinyana Wickramasinghe, a 2-year-old daughter and Kelly Wickramasinghe, a 2 1/2-month-old child lady.
A sixth sufferer, Amarakoonmubiayansela Ge Gamini Amarakoon, 40, was additionally discovered deceased.
Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs stated an “edged weapon” or “knife-like object” was utilized by the suspect, who was recognized as Febrio De-Zoysa.He has been charged with six counts of first-degree homicide and one rely of tried homicide. Mass killings are uncommon in Canada.
Stubbs stated the deceased are Sri Lankan nationals who lately got here to Canada. He stated they embody a 35-year-old mom, a 7-year-old son, a 4-year-old daughter, a 2-year-old daughter and the two 1/2-month-old child lady in addition to a 40-year-old acquaintance of the household.
The police chief stated when the primary officers arrived on the house the household’s father was outdoors and screaming for somebody to name 911. Police obtained two emergency calls at 10.52pm Wednesday.
The daddy is in hospital with critical, however non-life-threatening, accidents.
“This was a mindless act of violence perpetrated on purely harmless individuals,” Stubbs stated.
Sri Lanka’s excessive fee stated that it’s in contact with family members within the nation’s capital, Colombo.
De-Zoysa made a quick look in court docket Thursday and mumbled his assent because the justice of the peace ordered him to not communicate to the daddy who survived the assault or to 4 different witnesses who supplied statements to the police.
His case was adjourned till March 13 to offer him time to discover a lawyer.
Police have been known as to the house within the Barrhaven space simply earlier than 11pm Wednesday night time. The suspect was arrested rapidly after that, and police stated there was no persevering with risk to public security.
Don Perera, a neighbor, stated he met the household that lived within the house final fall at a Halloween celebration on the close by Catholic elementary college. He stated the daddy was from Sri Lanka.
Shanti Ramesh, who lives throughout the road, was alerted to a commotion late Wednesday. From her balcony, she noticed a person sitting on the driveway of the house and yelling earlier than two law enforcement officials arrived and carried him away.
On Thursday morning, 5 marked police automobiles have been parked on the road and in driveways close to the house, which is a center unit of a row of brick townhouses.
A number of individuals in white jumpsuits have been going out and in of the house all through the early morning, whereas mother and father and children walked and biked by on their approach to a close-by elementary college.
“Our first reactions are all ones of shock and horror at this horrible violence,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated.
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe known as the information distressing for all town’s residents.
“It is laborious to consider,” he stated. “It is devastating and heartbreaking.”
Police have recognized the victims as Darshani Banbaranayake Gama Walwwe Darshani Dilanthika Ekanyake, the 35-year-old mom; Inuka Wickramasinghe, a 7-year-old boy; Ashwini Wickramasinghe, a 4-year-old daughter, Rinyana Wickramasinghe, a 2-year-old daughter and Kelly Wickramasinghe, a 2 1/2-month-old child lady.
A sixth sufferer, Amarakoonmubiayansela Ge Gamini Amarakoon, 40, was additionally discovered deceased.
