Corey Comperatore’s CASKET arrives after RALLY
At a Pennsylvania church on Friday, mourners gathered to attend the funeral of the volunteer fire chief who was killed during last weekend’s Donald Trump rally. The casket of the deceased was being carried out of the venue draped in the American flag.
Eight firefighters carried the 50-year-old Corey Comperatore’s casket out of Cabot United Methodist Church while the widow and other mourners watched.
During Trump’s event on Saturday night at the Butler Farm Show grounds, a gunman opened fire from a factory rooftop, killing the husband and father of two as he attempted to protect his family.
Helen Comperatore, his widow, remembered her husband telling her to “Get down!” as the gunman opened fire on the throng.
Helen declared to The Post on Monday, “He’s my hero.” “The last thing he said was to get down,” the person added. During the attempted assassination, a bullet missed Trump, who is 78 years old. Though they are expected to recover, two other rally participants suffered serious injuries.
During his acceptance address at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, Trump honored “our friend Corey” by wearing his fire helmet and jacket on stage. As he bemoaned how “he lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets,” the former president planted a kiss on Comperatore’s helmet.
On Thursday, Comperatore was feted in a public procession in Freeport.
Up to 500 fire engines are expected to march from the church to the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company in Sarver, where Comperatore worked for a number of years, following the services, according to a story in the New York Times.
On Friday, Governor Kathy Hochul of New York said that state flags will be lowered to half-staff in Comperatore’s honor “the day of the funeral.” However, it seems that Hochul was unaware that the funeral was scheduled for that morning.
“That’s something we’re considering for the funeral day. What time is the funeral? According to POLITICO’s Jason Beeferman, Hochul stated during the morning news conference, “We have to find out when the funeral is.”
The funeral was well under way when the governor’s office shortly afterward made a formal announcement directing the flags to be lowered.
According to Hochul, “Corey Comperatore was a proud American, a father, and a public servant whose life was taken in a senseless act of violence that shakes at the core of our democracy.” “Let us pledge once more to the better angels of our nature and to the collective freedoms we enjoy as a nation as we honor his memory.”
