The family of a Buffalo Township man has identified him as the victim killed Saturday evening during a shooting at the rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler, in which Trump was injured and two other spectators were critically injured.
Chief Corey Comperatore’s family mourned his loss.
“The PA Trump Rally claimed the life of my brother, Corey Comperatore,” posted Dawn Comperatore Schafer on Facebook. “The hatred for one man took the life of the one man we loved the most.
He was a hero who shielded his daughters. His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable. My baby brother just turned 50 and had so much life left to experience. Hatred has no limits and love has no bounds. Pray for my sister-in-law, nieces, my mother, sister, me, and his nieces and nephews as this feels like a terrible nightmare but we know it is our painful reality.
Mr. Comperatore was a past chief and member of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company.
His wife wrote that the rally was meant to be an uplifting event.
“Yesterday, what turned out to be such an exciting day for my husband especially, turned into a nightmare for our family,” his wife, Helen Comperatore, wrote in a Facebook post. “What my precious girls had to witness is unforgivable. What I had to was.”
“He died the hero he always was.”
Chief Comperatore was an engineer at JSP, according to his LinkedIn profile.
A GoFundMe to support the Comperatore family was set up on Sunday. So far, more than $3,000 has been donated.
Our heartfelt condolences on the loss of the Chief. Rest In Peace.