A 20-year-old man has now pleaded guilty to murdering four children, their mother, and a close family friend in a mass stabbing in Ottawa last year.

Febrio De Zoysa has also pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder for his attack on the father of the family, Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, who was seriously injured.

At the time of the stabbings on March 6, 2024 , De Zoysa was an international student living with the Wickramasinghes in their basement in Ottawa's Barrhaven suburb.

He was arrested at the scene without incident after first responders arrived and was charged with six counts of first-degree murder the following day.

De Zoysa stood with his lawyer Ewan Lyttle in Superior Court in Ottawa Thursday morning and pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder of the followi

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