{"id":106392,"date":"2024-07-14T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-killed-at-trump-rally-died-a-hero-pennsylvania-governor-says\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T18:04:00","slug":"man-killed-at-trump-rally-died-a-hero-pennsylvania-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-killed-at-trump-rally-died-a-hero-pennsylvania-governor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed at Trump rally &#8216;died a hero,&#8217; Pennsylvania governor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-14\/Untitled%20design%20%285%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(BUTLER, P.A.) &#8212; The man killed at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Comperatore was a firefighter and a father of two daughters, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Comperatore &#8220;died a hero&#8221; when he &#8220;dove on his family&#8221; to protect them from the gunfire during the rally, his wife said, according to Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Corey was an avid supporter of the former president and was so excited to be there last night with him in the community,&#8221; Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people were critically wounded in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on TruthSocial, Trump expressed condolences for the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We pray for the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed,&#8221; he wrote Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Angerer\/Getty Images (BUTLER, P.A.) &#8212; The man killed at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday has been identified. Corey Comperatore was a firefighter and a father of two daughters, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday. Comperatore &#8220;died a hero&#8221; when he &#8220;dove on his family&#8221; to protect<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-killed-at-trump-rally-died-a-hero-pennsylvania-governor-says\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}