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Exclusive: The woman with the stroller on the Hill

You've seen her on the surveillance video. Kristel Peters was on Parliament Hill Oct. 22. She tells her story for the first time just days after the OPP report on the RCMP's response to the shooting came out.
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Censored versions of police reports on Michael Zehaf Bibeau's attack on Parliament Hill last October are to be released today in Ottawa. Bibeau is shown carrying a gun while running towards Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2014 in a still taken from video surveillance in this handout photo. (RCMP handout/Canadian Press)

"I was running like there was someone running behind me, not knowing that there was."

That someone on the heels of Kristel Peters was Parliament Hill gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, but the mother visiting Parliament Hill for the first time with her nine-month-old baby had no idea the shooter was headed to the same place where she was seeking safety. 

Peters was mentioned in the Ontario Provincial Police report, out this week, examining the RCMP's actions the day of the terrorist attack. 

The OPP report details that a woman with a baby carriage was the first to alert the RCMP that there was an armed man on the Hill.

Now, that woman -- Kristel Peters -- is coming forward to tell her story for the first time. How did the events of Oct. 22 unfold, from her perspective? And what shocked her about security on the Hill as she raced towards Centre Block? 

"Looking back now, I was exactly where he was heading to, the whole time," she tells Evan Solomon.

"I was going to where he was going, the safest place to go to get cover, to get help."

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