Firefighter Corey Comperatore’s gear will be on stage during former President Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday.
Sources told Fox News that Comperatore’s fire helmet and jacket will be shipped to Milwaukee by his family and placed on the convention stage shortly before Trump’s speech.
Comperatore, 50, a volunteer firefighter from Thurber, Pennsylvania, was killed Saturday while trying to protect his family from gunfire when an assassin opened fire on Trump during a rally in Butler, wounding Trump and two others, 74-year-old James Copenhaver and 57-year-old David Duch.
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A memorial is displayed at Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, Fire Department 27 on July 14, 2024, to volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was shot and killed at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday. (Reuters/Brendan McDiarmid)
Comperatore’s wife, Helen Comperatore, told the New York Post that the couple were approaching their 29th wedding anniversary at the time of the event.
“He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore said, describing her husband’s final words as the shootout broke out: “He just said, ‘Get down!’ Those were his last words.”
“My kids and I were there as a whole family,” she added. “He was just excited. It looked like a great day out with the family.”
An undated family photo shows former Buffalo Township Fire Chief Corey Comperatore with his daughters. (Helen Comperatore/Facebook)
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Corey Comperatore was the fire chief for the Buffalo Township Fire Department, which paid tribute to him a few days after his death by erecting a memorial outside the fire station featuring his uniform and calling him a “brother, son, husband, father and friend.”
Helen Comperatore said President Biden contacted her after the incident but “didn’t want to talk about it.”
Corey Comperatore (Allison Comperatore/Facebook)
“I did not speak to Mr. Biden,” she said. “My husband is a staunch Republican and would not have wanted him to speak to me.”
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“I have no ill will towards Joe Biden,” she added. “I’m not a political person. I support Trump and I will vote for him, but I have no ill will towards Biden.”
