The final words uttered by a father of two slain at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania have emerged. His widow has declined President Biden’s offer of condolences, citing her husband’s strong Republican affiliation.
Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed Saturday night while trying to protect his wife and daughter in the moments after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire.
‘He’s my hero,’ his wife, Helen Comperatore, told the New York Post. ‘He just said “Get down!” That was the last thing he said.’
President Biden has since tried to offer the Comperatore family his sympathies, but Helen said she did not want to hear from him.
‘I don’t talk to Biden,’ she said. ‘I didn’t want to talk to him. My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him,’ she explained.
Helen added that she has no ‘ill-will’ towards the president.
‘I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics,’ she told the Post.
‘I support Trump, that’s who I’m voting for, but I don’t have any ill-will towards Biden.
‘He didn’t do anything to my husband, a 20-year-old despicable kid did.’
Helen said she and her husband, who were high school sweethearts, were on the verge of celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary when they headed to the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania to support the former president.
‘Me and the kids were all there as a family,’ she said. ‘He was just excited. It was going to be a nice day with the family.’
As he tried to protect his wife and daughter, Comperatore – a former volunteer firefighter – was shot in the head.
An emergency room doctor at Donald Trump’s rally revealed how he performed CPR on Comperatore after he was hit by a bullet intended for the former president.
‘I heard the shots. I thought it was firecrackers begin with. Somebody over there was screaming ‘he’s been shot he’s been shot,” said the man who had blood splattered all over his white USA shirt. ‘So I made my way over. I said I’m an emergency department physician. Let me help you.’
‘The guy had spun around was jammed between the benches and a head shot here,’ he told CBS News.
‘So I got him together so I got people there really helpful. I did CPR chest compressions as well.’
But the 50-year-old was later pronounced dead.
Helen said she now wants America to remember Corey as a ‘very loving husband.’
‘He was a simple man, but he put his wife and kids first all the time,’ she said.
‘I did nothing here. I didn’t lift a finger. He did everything.’ (Mail Online)
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