Two vigils were scheduled for Thursday, a day before the private funeral.
A Sarver, Pa., fire-rescue truck arrives for a memorial held for Corey Comperatore, the former volunteer fire department chief killed at Saturday's Trump rally, at Laube Hall in Freeport, Pa., on July 18.
Firetrucks flanked the black van carrying his body up the country road to Laube Hall. Snipers kept watch on roofs.In the five days since Comperatore’s death at the Trump rally 20 miles away shocked the world, a GoFundMe page to support his family had raised more than $1 million. Friends, neighbors, strangers — they were all still processing it.
Comperatore, who had celebrated his 50th birthday last month, spent his life in this blue-collar community on the Allegheny River. He graduated from Freeport High School, home of the Yellowjackets, and married his former classmate, Helen. Together, they raised two daughters.For nearly three decades, he worked at a plastics plant in the forested hills of Butler County, rising from maintenance supervisor to project engineer. In his spare time, he’d served in the U.S.
MAGA politics was his other passion. He loved Trump, Warheit said, and had been thrilled to attend Saturday’s rally. Minutes into Trump’s stump speech, gunfire shattered that joy. Comperatore flung himself over his wife and daughters,
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