Four children and two adults are dead, and one person is injured after a mass shooting in an Ottawa suburb. The police have arrested a suspect and confirmed that there is no ongoing threat to public safety.
Police vehicles are parked at the scene of a homicide where six people were found dead in the Barrhaven suburb of Ottawa on March 7. Ottawa police say four children and two adults are dead and a seventh person is injured after what the police chief is describing as an attack by a “lone actor” in an Ottawa suburb Wednesday night. Police chief Eric Stubbs told CBC News in an interview that it was a “ mass shooting ,” but an Ottawa police spokeswoman is not confirming the weapon.
Police were called to a townhome in Barrhaven shortly before 11 p.m. Wednesday and discovered the bodies in what Stubbs is calling “a horrific scene.” One man was arrested very shortly after police arrived, and Stubbs says there is no ongoing threat to public safety. He says police are still trying to determine the relationship between the suspect and the victims but it did not appear to be a case of domestic violence. None of the victims have been identified. “A mass shooting like this, with this amount of victims, is not a common occurrence in this community,” Stubbs told CBC. “It is a safe community
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