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Join Telegram ChannelFamily members identified Corey Comperatore as the rally attendee who was killed in a crash Saturday. assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Comperatore, 50, was a former fire chief for Buffalo Township Fire Department, a volunteer fire department, local news station WPXI reported. He was shot and killed when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump from a sniper position about 130 yards away during the campaign event.
Two other people were seriously injured in the attack, authorities said, while Trump's ear was grazed in the deadly attack.
The victim's sister, Dawn Comperatore Schafer, wrote in a Facebook post that Corey “was a hero who protected his daughters.”
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Corey Comperatore plays the rally attendee who was killed Saturday in an assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Facebook)
““His wife and daughters have just experienced the unthinkable and unimaginable,” wrote Dawn Comperatore Schafer.
“My little brother just turned 50 and he still has a lot of life left to live. Hate has no limits and love has no limits. Please pray for my sister-in-law, my nieces, my mother, my sister, me and his nieces and nephews because this seems like a terrible nightmare, but we know it is our painful reality.”
The post was accompanied by a photo of Corey celebrating his 50th birthday.
According to witnesses at the rally, one victim was shot in the head, believed to be Comperatore. An emergency room doctor at the rally revealed how he performed CPR on a member of the crowd, according to reports.
Another family member, Allyson Comperatore, believed to be the victim's daughter, also took to Facebook to share her loss and pay emotional tribute.
“Yesterday time stopped. And when it started again, my family and I began living a complete nightmare,” Allyson wrote. “He was the best father a girl could ask for.”
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Attendees disperse after gunshots rang out during a campaign rally for former President Trump at the Butler Farm Show Inc. on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. Family members identified Corey Comperatore as the rally attendee who was killed. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
She posted several photos of him, including images of Comperatore fishing and with a birthday cake.
“The media won't tell you that he died like a superhero. They won't tell you how fast he threw my mother and me to the ground. They won't tell you that he shielded my body from the bullet that hit us.”
“He loved his family. He really loved us enough to take a bullet for us.”
A GoFundMe campaign launched for his family has already raised nearly $80,000.
Matt Achilles, who lived near Comperatore for four years, described Comperatore as a good neighbor and dedicated public servant to the Tribune-Review.
“He was a good person,” Achilles said Sunday morning. “We may not have agreed on the same political views, but that didn’t stop him from being a good friend and a good neighbor.”
“He gave us money when I was in the hospital and he always came to our yard sales. He always waved at me when I passed his house.”
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump is assisted by security personnel after gunshots rang out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13, 2024. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
Crooks, 20, was from Bethel Park, which is a Pittsburgh suburbs about an hour south of where the assassination attempt took place.
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A Fox News Digital search revealed that Crooks would have turned 21 this September. He had no traffic tickets or reported bankruptcies, liens or foreclosures.
The FBI is investigating the shooting as an attempted assassination.
Scott McDonald of Fox News Digital contributed to this update.