OTTAWA — The man accused of killing a mother, her four children and a family friend in a mass stabbing in Ottawa in 2024 pleaded guilty this morning.

Febrio De-Zoysa appeared in an Ottawa courtroom where he pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and one charge of attempted murder.

Thirty-five-year-old Darshani Ekanayake and her four children who ranged in age from two months to seven years old, along with 40-year-old Gamini Amarakoon were killed in the attack.

The children’s father, Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, was injured in the attack.

De-Zoysa was in Canada as an international student and was 19 years old and living at the family’s rented townhouse at the time of the murders.

More coming.

Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press

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