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A man killed at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday has been identified as 50-year-old former fire chief Corey Comperatore, Pennsylvania Gov.
[2] [11] [12] Crooks also killed one audience member and critically injured two others. [2] A member of the Butler County Emergency Services Unit then shot at Crooks and hit his rifle, preventing him from firing more shots. Ten seconds later, Crooks was shot and killed by the Counter Sniper Team of the United States Secret Service. [13]
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro identified the man who was killed during a shooting at a Trump rally on Saturday as Corey Comperatore, who was a firefighter in the state.
On July 13, 2024, at a rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, Crooks shot at Trump with an AR-15–style rifle from a nearby rooftop while Trump was giving a speech. Crooks wounded Trump's ear and killed one attendee while critically injuring two others before being killed by a Secret Service counter sniper team. His motive remains unknown.
The 20-year-old resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle while the former president was speaking on stage in the rural town of Butler on Saturday.
On July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots into a Trump rally from an elevated position outside the venue while Trump was giving a speech near Butler, Pennsylvania. [15] Trump was injured and was bleeding from his right ear after the shooting. [16] Crooks, as well as a rally attendee, were killed, while another two were left injured. [17]
The people of Butler County know the shooting could have been much worse. The heavily Republican community is now grappling with notoriety — and mourning the losses. ... specifically in the Fire ...
It was a fleeting moment passed off as a joke. But as he returns to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday for a rally at the site where a gunman opened fire in July, grazing his ear with a bullet, the scare underscores the lasting fallout for the candidate and his campaign even as much of the national attention has shifted to other crises.