Memorials honor Buffalo Township’s Corey Comperatore at Butler Trump rally
Memorials were set up Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Butler Farm Show grounds in honor of Corey Comperatore, who was shot and killed while attending the last campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in July. Morgan Phillips/Eagle Staff Photographer
The seat where Buffalo Township’s Corey Comperatore sat on July 13 displayed his fireman’s jacket and helmet on Saturday, Oct. 5, as former President Donald Trump was to return to the Butler Farm Show grounds following the July 13 assassination attempt that also took Comperatore’s life.
Comperatore, 50, died shielding his wife and daughter as shots rang out at the Connoquenessing Township venue at the July rally.
During the July rally, two others were injured and Trump’s ear was grazed by a bullet. The gunman, who had climbed up on the top of the AGR building nearby, was shot and killed.
A memorial for Corey Comperatore sits in the bleachers at sunrise before Donald Trump’s return rally at the Butler Farm Show on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Kelly Comperatore-Meeder, left, and Dawn Comperatore-Schafer, sisters of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died as he shielded family members from gunfire, cry at a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, at the Butler Farm Show, the site where a gunman tried to assassinate Trump in July, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Kelly Comperatore-Meeder, left, and Dawn Comperatore-Schafer, sisters of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died as he shielded family members from gunfire, cry at a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, at the Butler Farm Show, the site where a gunman tried to assassinate Trump in July, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Kelly Comperatore-Meeder, left, and Dawn Comperatore-Schafer, sisters of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died as he shielded family members from gunfire, attend a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, at the Butler Farm Show, the site where a gunman tried to assassinate Trump in July, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Memorials were set up Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Butler Farm Show grounds in honor of Corey Comperatore, who was shot and killed while attending the last campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in July. Shawn Hernandez/Submitted Photo
A fireman's jacket and flowers were set up in the grandstands in honor of Corey Comperatore during Former President Donald Trump's return to the Butler Farm Show grounds for a rally on Saturday, Oct. 5. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A fireman's jacket and flowers were set up in the grandstands in honor of Corey Comperatore during Former President Donald Trump's return to the Butler Farm Show grounds for a rally on Saturday, Oct. 5. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
