Owner of Ottawa home where 6 killed says no idea accused lived there
the scene of the city’s worst mass killing in recent memory says he did not know the accused killer lived there.Ottawa police allege 19-year-old Sri Lankan national Febrio De-Zoysa murdered a mother, and her four children along with a family acquaintance. The youngest victim was just a few months old.
De-Zoysa is facing six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.The father, identified in court documents as Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.Chhabra is an Ottawa mortgage agent who rented out the property on Berrigan Dr. in Barrhaven to the family who had recently come to Canada from Sri Lanka.Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs told reporters on Thursday that investigators were still trying to determine exactly what the living situation was in relation to De-Zoysa and the victims, but confirmed De-Zoysa also lived at the Barrhaven home.Thirty-five-year-old mother Darshani Dilanthika Ekanyake, her four children, between the ages of seven and two-and-a-half months, were killed inside their home Wednesday night.Forty-year-old family acquaintance Amarakoomubiayansela Ge Gamini Amarakoon also died.
Police say the victims were attacked with a “knife-like” weapon.Chhabra says he did not know Amarakoon was living in the house either.According to the property owner, the Wickramasinghe family moved into the Barrhaven home last summer. He says the father arrived in Canada first and waited for his wife to come with their children.The property owner describes the surviving father as a “very nice guy” and good tenant.“He was the kind of tenant who paid his rent always on time… he took good care of the house,” said Chhabra.“I don’t even have words after all this.
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