With the funeral behind them, family of the firefighter killed at the Trump rally begins grieving

The funeral is over. The crowds have left. Now the hard work of grieving is beginning for the family of a former fire chief who was shot and killed during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Corey Comperatore’s sister, Dawn Comperatore Schafer, is mad at the scammers trying to collect money on their behalf fraudulently.

Mostly, though, she is shattered. She is still trying to understand how it all happened. She said the family got through the funeral with the love and support of thousands of people. “They kept us standing,” she said.

But, she added, it doesn’t stop after that. “The aftermath is just that. You sit with the loss,” she explained.

“We’re hoping the next several weeks coming ahead is when we can really wrap our heads around all of this. We’re trying to get out of the noise. And that’s very hard to do, as you can imagine. But that’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to get out of the noise.”

The noise has been constant for the Comperatore family from the moment a bullet aimed at Trump killed her 50-year-old baby brother, who was a spectator at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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