The crowd member killed in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania has been identified.
Corey Comperatore, the retired Buffalo Township fire chief, sat behind the former president who was shot dead by 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Audience members tried to save the father’s life on the steps of Butler after Crooks opened fire from a rooftop 150 yards away.
Family members paid tribute to Comperatore, who was well known in the community.
His sister wrote on Facebook: ‘The Trump rally in Pennsylvania claimed the life of my brother, Corey Comperatore.
‘Hatred for one man took the life of the man we loved most. He was a hero who protected his daughters.
The mob member killed in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has been identified as Corey Comperatore, a retired Pennsylvania fire chief.
‘His wife and daughters have just experienced the unthinkable and unimaginable. My younger brother has just turned 50 and still has a lot of life left.
“Hate has no limits and love has no borders. Please pray for my sister-in-law, my nieces, my mother, my sister, for me and for her nephews and nieces, because this seems like a terrible nightmare, but we know that it is our painful reality.”
“My little brother just turned 50 and he still has a lot of life left,” his sister wrote online.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old assassin who shot Donald Trump, is a registered Republican and a 2022 high school graduate.
He opened fire on the former president with an AR-style rifle from a rooftop 130 yards from the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at 6:15 p.m.
Images of Crooks wearing glasses, braces and an American flag T-shirt in a yearbook portrait emerged Sunday morning, hours after he tried to eliminate the presumptive Republican nominee and killed a member of the crowd attending the rally.