Hero of Canada’s Parliament Shooting Greeted with Standing Ovation
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Alex Boutilier/Toronto Star via Getty Images(OTTAWA, Ontario) — The hero sergeant-at-arms who killed the shooter in Wednesday’s attack on the Canadian Parliament was welcomed back into the building Thursday morning with a prolonged standing ovation.
Kevin Vickers, 58, nodded to acknowledge the spontaneous applause that washed over him by the officials in the chamber, which included Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Vickers, a retired Royal Canadian Mountie, holds the ceremonial post of sergeant-at-arms but he confronted and killed gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the suspect in the shooting death of a soldier at the National War Memorial, before invading the main Parliament building.
Parliament was back to work Thursday morning, and the crowd ushered Vickers into the room with applause which went on for several minutes. At one point, a few tears appeared to roll down his cheek. The group then sang the national anthem, and held a moment of silence before the prime minister spoke.
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