{"id":40625,"date":"2024-07-15T03:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40625"},"modified":"2024-07-15T03:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:45:11","slug":"man-killed-during-trump-shooting-dived-on-family-to-protect-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40625","title":{"rendered":"Man killed during Trump shooting dived on family to protect them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One man in the audience died while trying to protect his family during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday, authorities say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer fire chief, dove onto family members when the shots rang out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCorey died a hero,\u201d Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said at a news conference on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pennsylvania state police said the other two people shot were 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver. Both were in a stable condition on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pennsylvania governor said that he spoke to Mr Comperatore\u2019s wife and two daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCorey went to church every Sunday,\u201d he said. \u201cCory loved his community. Most especially, Corey loved his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that Mr Comperatore was an avid supporter of Donald Trump and was excited to be at the rally Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCorey was the very best of us. May his memory be a blessing,\u201d Mr Shapiro said. \u201cLast night was shocking\u2026 political disagreements can never, ever be addressed through violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State police said that Mr Comperatore lived in Sarver, about 12 miles (19km) away from the rally site in Butler, outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to his volunteer firefighting work, he was employed as a project and tooling engineer at a plastics manufacturing company, according to his social media profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was a good person,\u201d neighbour Matt Achilles told the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/valley-news-dispatch\/buffalo-township-man-killed-at-trump-rally-remembered-as-good-neighbor-dedicated-public-servant\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/a>. \u201cWe might not have agreed on the same political views, but that didn\u2019t stop him from being a good friend and neighbour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe donated money to us when I was in the hospital and he would always come by at our yard sales. He always waved hello when I drove past his house,\u201d Mr Achilles said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Shapiro said also he spoke to the family of one of those injured, but declined to give details about the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bullet, one of the six to eight shots that were fired at the rally, grazed the ear of former President Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gunman, named by authorities as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by Secret Service officers tasked with protecting the former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: One man in the audience died while trying to protect his family during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday, authorities say. Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer fire chief, dove onto family members when the shots rang out. \u201cCorey died a hero,\u201d Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said at a news conference on Sunday. Pennsylvania state police said the other two people shot were 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver. Both were in a stable condition on Sunday. The Pennsylvania governor said that he spoke to Mr Comperatore\u2019s wife and two daughters. \u201cCorey went to church every Sunday,\u201d&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40627,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40625\/revisions\/40627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}