TORONTO: A 19-year-old scholar from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six individuals he lived with, together with a 2 1/2-month-old child woman and three different youngsters from a Sri Lankan household, Ottawa police mentioned Thursday. Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs mentioned 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 depend of tried homicide. Mass killings are uncommon in Canada. Stubbs mentioned the deceased are Sri Lankan nationals who just lately got here to Canada. He mentioned 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 woman in addition to a 40-year-old acquaintance of the household. The police chief mentioned when the primary officers arrived on the dwelling the household’s father was exterior 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 senseless act of violence perpetrated on purely innocent people,” Stubbs mentioned. Sri Lanka’s excessive fee mentioned that it’s in contact with family 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 converse to the daddy who survived the assault or to 4 different witnesses who offered statements to the police. His case was adjourned till March 13 to provide him time to discover a lawyer. Police had been known as to the house within the Barrhaven space simply earlier than 11pm Wednesday evening. The suspect was arrested shortly after that, and police mentioned there was no persevering with menace to public security. Don Perera, a neighbor, mentioned he met the household that lived within the dwelling final fall at a Halloween celebration on the close by Catholic elementary faculty. He mentioned 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 cops arrived and carried him away. On Thursday morning, 5 marked police vehicles had 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 had been going out and in of the house all through the early morning, whereas dad and mom and youngsters walked and biked by on their method to a close-by elementary faculty. “Our first reactions are all ones of shock and horror at this terrible violence,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned. Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe known as the information distressing for all town’s residents. “It’s hard to believe,” he mentioned. “It’s 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 woman. A sixth sufferer, Amarakoonmubiayansela Ge Gamini Amarakoon, 40, was additionally discovered deceased.
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