19-Year-Old Arrested as Mother and Her 4 Children Among the 6 Deceased In Ottawa Homicide
Six people including four children have been found dead in a two-floor townhouse in Barrhaven, Ottawa. A 19-year-old has been taken into custody and charged with the six counts of first degree murder.
A mass shooting incident has been reported inside a two-floor townhouse on Berrigan Drive, suburb of Barrhaven, Ottawa, last Wednesday night before 11 p.m. Six people which included four children and two adults were killed in the incident.
A 19-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. The accused is a Sri Lankan national who has been in Canada as a student. He will appear in court later today after which, his name can be released.
Ottawa Police Chief, Eric Stubbs mentioned that the investigators do not believe the homicide to be an incident of domestic violence or intimate partner violence.
The investigation discovered that an edged weapon was used to caused the deaths and injuries, calling it as a mass killing and not mass shooting.
A spokesperson for the Sri Lankan High Commission mentions that the deceased include a Sri Lankan Woman and her four children along with the father, identified as the Sri Lankan Man, survived but injured.
It has been reported that there were police cars parked outside the house in the Barrhaven neighborhood.
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