The man killed in the assassination attempt on former U.S. president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump was Corey Comperatore, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on Sunday.
Comperatore, 50, was a former volunteer fire chief from the Buffalo Township who loved his family, the governor stated. “Corey died a hero. Corey dove on his family to protect them last night,” Shapiro said.
“Corey was the very best of us. May his memory be a blessing,” the Jewish Democrat told reporters outside the Butler Township municipal building.
Comperatore’s sister, Dawn Comperatore Schafer, said in a Facebook post on Sunday that her brother died after he took a bullet for his family.
“My baby brother just turned 50 and had so much life left to experience. Hatred has no limits and love has no bounds,” the victim’s sister wrote in the post. “He was a hero that shielded his daughters. His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable.”
Trump was rushed off stage—bleeding from his right ear—after being shot on Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., north of Pittsburgh.
The president lifted his fist as Secret Service agents walked him off stage. Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger told AP that the shooter was dead and one attendee at the rally was killed.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, from Bethel Park, a southern suburb of Pittsburgh (Butler is a northern suburb), as the “subject involved” in the shooting.
