The tragic victim of the shooting at a Donald Trump rally has been identified.
Former Pennsylvania Fire Chief Corey Comperatore was tragically killed in a shootout while President Trump was speaking in Butler.
Other rally attendees tried to save Mr Comperatore’s life, who was in the audience, but tragically he was shot and killed.
His sister posted on Facebook: “My brother, Corey Comperatore, was killed at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
“Hatred towards one man took the life of the man we loved most. He was a hero who protected his daughters.”
“His wife and daughters had just survived the unthinkable, the unimaginable. My brother had just turned 50 and still had so much left to experience in life.
“Hate knows no limits, love knows no boundaries. Please pray for my sister-in-law, niece, mother, sister, me and his niece and nephew. This feels like a terrible nightmare but I know it’s a painful reality for us all.”
An emergency room doctor at the rally described administering CPR to another attendee, believed to be Comperatore.
“I heard gunshots. I thought it was firecrackers at first. Then I heard someone over there yelling, ‘He’s been shot, he’s been shot,'” the man told CBS News.
“So I went in there and said, I’m an emergency department physician. Let me help you.”
Despite medics’ best efforts, the man died at the scene.
Suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, has been identified as the man behind the attempted assassination of the former president at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Investigators on Sunday were working to gather more information about Crooks, a Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, man who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents during a shooting at a rally just days before Trump accepted the Republican nomination for a third term.
As he was escorted off the stage by Secret Service, Trump was seen with blood coming from the side of his ear but said he was “OK.”