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The final moments of a gunman’s rampage at Parliament Hill may have been even more dramatic than previously acknowledged.

The narrative emerging on the Hill, sources confirmed Saturday, is one in which Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers stood with his back to a column in Centre Block, while gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was on the other side, close enough that Vickers could see the barrel of the gunman’s rifle.

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While the facts of those chaotic moments are difficult to fully confirm, it is said that Vickers, 58, then dove and flipped onto his back, shooting upwards at the gunman as he fell to deliver the fatal shots to the man believed to have killed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo earlier that morning.

The CBC, which first publicly reported these details, said Zehaf-Bibeau had a confrontation with security at the entrance of Centre Block, then ran down the Hall of Honour toward the Parliamentary Library, where he shot at doors.