Dhanushka Wickramasinghe biography: 13 things about Barrhaven, Ottawa man from Sri Lanka

Dhanushka Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan man living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is originally from Kandy, Sri Lanka.
2. He runs his own house-cleaning company in Ottawa while working as an Uber driver.
3. He was 3 years older than his wife Darshani Banbaranayake Gama Walwwe Darshani Dilanthika Ekanyake.
4. He and Ekanyake had four children.
5. In 2016, Ekanyake gave birth to their child Inuka Wickramasinghe in Sri Lanka.
6. In 2019, Ekanyake gave birth to their child Ashwini Wickramasinghe in Sri Lanka.
7. In 2021, Ekanyake gave birth to their child Rinyana Wickramasinghe in Sri Lanka. In the same year, he left Kandy, came to Gloucester, Ottawa on a student visa and enrolled in marketing and management courses at Algonquin College in Ottawa.
8. In July 2023, Ekanyake, Inuka, Ashwini and Rinyana joined him in Ottawa. They moved into a townhouse they rented in Barrhaven, Ottawa from Harpreet Chhabra and shared the house with Gamini Amarakoon, 40, and Algonquin College student Febrio de Zoysa, then 18, who are both from Sri Lanka.
9. In January 2024, Ekanyake gave birth to their daughter Kelly Wickramasinghe in Ottawa.
10. In February 2024, he reached out to Halal Ahmed, an accountant based in Barrhaven, to help him with his taxes. That month, he and Ekanyake helped de Zoysa celebrate de Zoysa’s 19th birthday.
11. At around 10:30 p.m. on March 6, 2024, he arrived home in Barrhaven and was attacked by de Soyza before he found Ekanyake, Inuka, Ashwini, Rinyana, Kelly and Amarakoon dead.
12. On March 7, 2024, he was visited in the hospital by his friend Bhanthe Sumanarathana, a resident monk at the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery.
13. He was 38 year old when de Zoysa was charged with attempted murder for attacking him and six counts of first-degree murder for killing his wife, their four children and Amarakoon. On March 14, 2024, de Zoysa will appear in court.