Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe looks on as Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs responds to a question during a news conference on the multiple murders in Barrhaven, Thursday, March 7, 2024 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Ottawa police admit they made mistakes last week when communicating key information about the city's worst mass killing in recent history.Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe looks on as Ottawa police Chief Eric Stubbs responds to a question during a news conference the day after six people including a mother and her four children were killed in Barrhaven. Ottawa police admit they made mistakes last week when communicating key information about the city's worst mass killing in recent history.
During a news conference that afternoon, Stubbs misidentified the man in custody as "Frank D'Souza." Later that day Febrio De-Zoysa, a 19-year-old Sri Lankan national who had come to Canada as a student, was officially charged. The Wickramasinghe family at daughter Ranaya's third birthday party earlier this month. From left to right, father Dhanushka Wickramasinghe; two-month-old daughter Kelly; daughters Ashwini, 4, and Ranaya, 3, son Inuka, 7, and mother Darshani Dilanthika Ekanayake, 35. In a statement to CBC, OPS admitted the mistakes and said homicides are "very complex files to investigate and quickly evolving.
"Erroneous information is sometimes communicated to police and we can also make mistakes when communicating with the community and media," OPS said. "When that happens, we correct it as soon as possible."Christopher Schneider, a professor of criminology at Brandon University in Manitoba, said communications by Ottawa police were "incredibly problematic" in this case.
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