"Sergeant at Arms" doing what he's there to do.
By all accounts, the white-haired grandfather, a decorated veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, kept cool amid the chaos as dozens of bullets flew in the corridors, went to his office, retrieved his weapon and with a firm hand and a steely eye shot a killer before he could kill again. Vickers, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall, then walked away, gun-in hand, having “taken care of business,” as one news outlet put it.
And then he called his mother to say he was safe.
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Members of the Canadian Parliament “owe their safety, even lives, to Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers who shot attacker just outside the MPs’ caucus rooms,” tweeted Craig Scott, who represents Toronto-Danforth.
Vickers is no stranger to guarding Canada’s political VIPs. As the CBC reported, he has served the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for almost three decades, including a stint as director of security operations for the House of Commons before his appointment as sergeant-at-arms. He’s also done security for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew.
With the black robes, black hat and ceremonial sword he wears to Parliament openings, Vickers gives the appearance of a man from another time and place. But he’s a thoroughly modern policeman. He’s worked on homicide investigations, drug-smuggling operations and oversaw Canada’s investigation into the tainted Red Cross blood supply during the 1980s that infected thousands with hepatitis C and HIV.
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