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On the 10-year anniversary of the deadly Parliament Hill shooting, former sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says there’s “not a day that goes by” where he doesn’t think about it.

On Oct. 22, 2014, a gunman shot and killed 24-year-old Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, a member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial.

The gunman then ran up Parliament Hill and stormed Centre Block, before he was stopped and killed by RCMP and security officers, and Vickers.

In an interview on CTV News Channel’s Power Play, in honour of the anniversary, Vickers told host Vassy Kapelos that on the day, he always thinks about Cirillo’s mother, Kathy, and a conversation the two had about a month after the shooting.

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