Former fire chief identified as spectator killed during Trump rally shooting

The spectator killed at Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign event has been identified as 50-year-old Corey Comperatore by his relatives.

“Yesterday time stopped,” his daughter, Allyson Comperatore, wrote in a since removed social media post. She called him a “real-life superhero”, and said he “quickly threw” her and her mother to the ground and “shielded my body from the bullet that came at us”.

She wrote: “He loved his family. He truly loved us enough to take a real bullet for us. We lost a selfless, loving husband, father, brother, uncle, son, and friend. And I will never stop thinking about him and mourning over him until the day that I die too. July 13th will forever be a day that changed my life. I will never be the same person I was less than 24 hours ago.”

Authorities announced one spectator had died on Saturday evening. Mr Comperatore leaves behind a wife and two daughters, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro said on Sunday afternoon.

He loved his community and his family, the governor said. “Corey was an avid supporter of the former president. He was so excited to be there last night with the community. Corey died a hero. Corey dived on his family to protect them last night. Corey was the very best of us.”

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“The PA Trump Rally claimed the life of my brother, Corey Comperatore,” Dawn Comperatore Schafer wrote on Facebook on Sunday morning.

She said her younger brother had just turned 50, and posted a photo of him with her family holding up 5 and 0 balloons.

“The hatred for one man took the life of the one man we loved the most. He was a hero that shielded his daughters. His wife and girls just lived through the