The Ottawa Police Service Homicide Unit has charged a man in relation to the homicides on Berrigan Dr. that left six people deceased and one person injured.

Febrio DE-ZOYSA, 19-years-old, has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. He is a Sri Lankan national who is believed to be in Canada as a student.

Police have identified the victims of last night’s homicide as:

Darshani Banbaranayake Gama Walwwe Darshani Dilanthika Ekanyake (f), 35-years-old. Her husband was also injured and is in hospital in stable condition.

Tragically, the couple’s children are also deceased. They are:

Inuka Wickramasinghe (m), 7-years-old
Ashwini Wickramasinghe (f) 4-years-old
Rinyana Wickramasinghe (f), 2-years-old
Kelly Wickramasinghe (f), 2 months old

A sixth man, Amarakoonmubiayansela Ge Gamini Amarakoon, 40, was also found deceased.  He recently arrived in Canada.

"At about 10:52 p.m. yesterday the Ottawa Police Service received two 911 calls from the Berrigan Dr. area reporting a suspicious incident where a man was yelling for help asking people to call 911. Our team was immediately dispatched and the first officer arrived on scene minutes later. As multiple units began to arrive, officers identified a suspect who was quickly arrested without incident. Paramedics were also called and began to arrive. Officers entered the home to check on the safety of those inside and that is where they began to discover the six victims, the youngest of which is less than three months old," detailed Chief Eric Stubbs of the Ottawa Police Service.

The investigation has found that an edged weapon was used to cause the deaths and injuries.