Trump rally shooting victim identified on social media as Corey Comperatore, 50

Family members have identified the person killed at former President Donald Trump’s rally as Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief of Buffalo Township in Pennsylvania.

Dawn Comperatore Schafer, posting on Facebook, said the rally “claimed the life of my brother, Corey Comperatore.”

“The hatred for one man took the life of the one man we loved the most,” she wrote, adding her brother had just turned 50.

Another post, from daughter Allyson Comperatore, said her father protected her and other family members when the shots rang out.

“He loved his family. He truly loved us enough to take a real bullet for us,” she wrote.

The FBI said Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire on Mr. Trump at a Saturday rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, from the roof of a building less than 150 yards from the event stage while Mr. Trump was speaking.

Two other rally-goers were critically injured, the Secret Service said. The gunman was quickly shot and killed by Secret Service agents.

A GoFundMe page was set up to benefit the Comperatore family.

“Saturday night, our friend and family, Allyson, lost her father due to a senseless, tragic act at the Trump Rally in Butler,” organizer Jason Bubb of Buffalo Township wrote.

The page had raised more than $114,000 as of midday Sunday.

A LinkedIn page, featuring a photograph of Comperatore matching those in the GoFundMe page and Facebook posts, said he’d worked as a project and tooling engineer at JSP.

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