Barrhaven townhouse that was site of homicides now listed for sale

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The Ottawa home that was the site of a mass killing in March has been listed for sale.

A listing for 324 Berrigan Dr. in Barrhaven appeared on the realtor.ca website on Friday.

It boasts of the home’s “prime location” near school, parks and shopping, and it includes 25 photos, including gleaming images of an empty interior.

The three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom townhouse was listed for $599,900. The listing said the unit had recent upgrades, including new carpet on the stairs.

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“Don’t miss out on this modern, upgraded gem close to all amenities!” the listing reads.

Six people — including four children — were killed at the rented townhouse on the evening of March 6: Darshani Dilanthika Ekanayake, a 35-year-old wife and mother; Inuka Wickramasinghe, seven-year-old son; Ashwini Wickramasinghe, four-year-old daughter; Ranaya Wickramasinghe, three-year-old daughter; and Kelly Wickramasinghe, two-month-old daughter; and Gamini Amarakoon, a 40-year-old family friend.

The lone survivor, Ekanayake’s husband, Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, was seriously injured.

Now facing six charges of first-degree murder and one charge of attempted murder is Febrio De-Zoysa.

He had been living with the victims rent-free, and the family had recently helped him celebrate his 19th birthday, family friend and local monk Bhanthe Sumanarathana said in the days following the attack.

Sumanarathana said Wickramasinghe arrived home on March 6 around 10:30 p.m. and found De-Zoysa with a knife. Wickramasinghe asked about his family and was told everyone was safe upstairs, but, when he entered the house, he found the bodies of his wife, children and friend.

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De-Zoysa was arrested around 11 p.m. that night, the Ottawa Police Service said.

The landlord of the home said he had no idea De-Soyza was living there.

Harpreet Chhabra told The Canadian Press that the family had been leasing from him since June or July 2023. He didn’t know that the couple had recently had a new baby, nor that others were living in the house.

Wickramasinghe later attended a public funeral for his family with a bandaged hand and blackened eye. In May, he appeared at the Tartan Ottawa International Marathon, where he presented Mayor Mark Sutcliffe with a medal after the mayor crossed the finish line.

Sutcliffe had said before the race he would run the Ottawa marathon to support fundraising organized by Ottawa Victim Services to help Wickramasinghe.

None of the charges against De-Zoysa has been proven in court.

He’s currently in protective custody at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, and most recently appeared in court in late April, when lawyers set pre-trial dates for April 2025 and a preliminary inquiry on May 12-14, 2025.

With files from Postmedia and The Canadian Press

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