Former President Trump assassination try sufferer Corey Comperatore’s spouse and daughters sat down for his or her first formal interview since Comperatore was fatally shot on the former president’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13.
Comperatore, a 50-year-old retired volunteer hearth chief, was the one sufferer of the assassination try in opposition to the previous president to die of his accidents.
“He definitely was a hero. He saved his wife. He saved his child, and he was just the best guy,” Comperatore’s spouse of 29 years, Helen Comperatore, instructed WTAE.
Helen added that her husband was a “wonderful man,” and he or she needs the world to recollect him for who he was, not simply “as the man that was shot at the rally.”
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Former Buffalo Township Hearth Chief Corey Comperatore pictured along with his daughters in an undated household photograph. (Helen Comperatore/Fb)
“Just remember Corey as he was — a great man who was a great father, great husband.”
His daughter Kaylee mirrored on safety failures on the rally that led to her father’s loss of life.
“[B]lood is on their hands.”
“I just want [security] to know I really think my dad’s blood is on their hands,” she instructed WTAE, “and I hope they wake up every day thinking about what they took from our family, because we have to wake up every day and see that image of our father in our head, and no child should ever have to see that.”
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Volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore, heart, an attendee killed throughout gunfire at a marketing campaign rally of Republican presidential candidate former President Trump, is seen on this undated Buffalo Township Hearth Firm 27 handout photograph. (Buffalo Township Volunteer Hearth Dept/Handout by way of REUTERS)
Comperatore’s different daughter, Allyson, remembered the second her father used his physique to protect hers from gunfire.
“I was the one that my dad threw down. As he was throwing me down, that was when he was shot, and he ended up falling on to me,” she stated. “And I do not keep in mind listening to every other pictures … In that second, I used to be attempting to handle him. I used to be actually confused when he was on me.
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Volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore, center, an attendee killed during gunfire at a campaign rally of Republican presidential candidate former President Trump, is seen in this undated Buffalo Township Fire Company 27 handout photo. (Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Dept/Handout via REUTERS)
“I had circled, I went, ‘Dad’ — he fell down, and that is once I began screaming, and I used to be attempting to maintain him from bleeding,” she continued.
Kaylee additionally remembered screaming and initially considering she was in a dream.
A memorial for volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore, an attendee killed during gunfire at a campaign rally of Republican presidential candidate former President Trump, is displayed at the Buffalo Township Fire Company 27 in Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, July 14, 2024. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
“And you then understand it isn’t a dream, and you are feeling like your complete world is simply over,” she stated.
Comperatore served 10 years within the U.S. Military Reserve, in response to his obituary. He cherished to go fishing each weekend, rain or shine, and he cherished his household, Helen instructed WTAE.
A statue in front of Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company, Sarver, Pennsylvania, Sunday, July 28, 2024. The statue is surrounded by flowers and flags in honor of Fire Chief Corey Comperatore, who was shot and killed at a former President Trump rally in Butler on July 13. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Trump commemorated the fallen firefighter at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, a week after the assassination attempt, with Comperatore’s firefighter jacket and helmet displayed on stage.
Helen told WTAE Trump’s tribute to her husband at the RNC “was an enormous honor.”
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Republican presidential nominee former President Trump touches the turnout coat of former Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Department chief Corey Comperatore on Day 4 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon)
“All day on the rally, my husband saved saying, ‘He is gonna name me up on stage. You are gonna hear him. He is gonna say Corey, get on up right here!’ He was simply joking, clearly,” she explained.
When Trump paid tribute to Comperatore on stage, his family thought, “There’s his second. He is up on stage,” Helen said.
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The Comperatore family has hired counsel to help them get justice for their beloved husband and father.
“I would like justice for my husband, and I’ll get it,” Helen said.
