Report Says Gunman Who Ambushed Canada's Parliament Last Year Was Shot 31 Times

Ottawa's Parliament Hill gunman was shot 31 times and handcuffed when already dead, according to a summary of a police report slated for release Wednesday.

Based on early access to "key details of the report," the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published some of its contents, shedding new light on the shooting rampage of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who killed reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo before storming Canada's Parliament last October.

Conducted by the Ontario Provincial Police, the report includes autopsy and ballistics details revealing the location and severity of some of Zehaf-Bibeau's injuries, as well as a more detailed timeline of the events leading up to his death.

The new information comes days after the RCMP released the full-length version of a cellphone video Zehaf-Bibeau took immediately before beginning his attack. That video showed him praying and asking Allah for forgiveness in Arabic.

According to the CBC summary of the report, two of the shots that struck the gunman would have been fatal without immediate treatment, including one that entered the back of his head. The head shot came from the gun of RCMP Const. Curtis Barrett, who said he remembered it clearly. Barrett also felt a bullet from Zehaf-Bibeau's weapon sail past him, according to sources referenced by CBC.

The autopsy found eight bullets lodged in the gunman's body, including one that had exited and re-entered. Fifteen "perforated" Zehaf-Bibeau, entering and then passing through his body, while three others "grazed" him.

The CBC tally adds up to a total of 26 rounds. The remaining five are unaccounted for.

The shots that struck Zehaf-Bibeau were fired by the House of Commons' Sergeant at Arms, Kevin Vickers, and a group of four RCMP officers who had followed the gunman down to his hiding place behind a pillar near the Parliamentary Library. According to the CBC's account, Vickers fired on Zehaf-Bibeau 15 times from less than a meter away.

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The report disputes previous accounts of the murder of Cpl. Cirillo at the National War Memorial, stating that he was shot not twice, but three times in the back. It also includes new details of the Zehaf-Bibeau's course from the memorial to the scene of his eventual death minutes later.

After struggling with a security guard at the Centre Block's doors and firing a shot that deflected into the guard's leg, Zehaf-Bibeau pointed his weapon at another security guard, but did not fire.

Three other security guards then fired multiple rounds at the gunman, who returned fire. All missed, until Const. Louis Letourneau emptied his weapon and grazed Zehaf-Bibeau once, causing a minor injury. This exchange was caught on a Parliament Hill video that will be withheld from the public, according to the CBC.

It was then that Zehaf-Bibeau sprinted to take cover behind the pillar where Vickers and the four RCMP officers fatally shot him.

After bringing him down, the officers went on to place handcuffs on the dead shooter, according to the CBC account.