By Bill Carey
FireRescue1
BUTLER, Pa. — Helen Comperatore and her daughters are honoring the memory of Corey Comperatore, the volunteer fire chief who lost his life while protecting his family during the assassination attempt at Donald Trump’s political rally last month in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“He definitely was a hero,” Comperatore’s wife Helen said. “He saved his wife, he saved his child and he was just the best guy.”
Corey’s daughter, Allyson, vividly recalls the moment the shots rang out, a memory she says remains both sharp and painful, WPTV reported.
“I was the one that my dad threw down,” Allyson said. “That was when he was shot. He ended up falling onto me. I was, like, confused. And I went, “Dad?” And when I turned is whenever he fell down.”
Comperatore’s family wants him to be remembered for more than just being a victim in the assassination attempt on the former president.
“He isn’t just the guy that got shot at the rally,” Corey’s other daughter, Kaylee said. “He was a husband, a father, a son, an uncle. And he was the glue to our family. He was our strength. He was everything to us and that is what got taken from this world.”
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