The last words of a heroic father who was killed shielding his family from a would-be assassin’s bullets have been revealed.
Corey Comperatore, 50, a former volunteer firefighter and devoted family man, was killed in Butler, Pa., on Saturday during an attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life shortly after he began his rally speech. Two other people were severely wounded in the attack, and one bullet clipped Trump’s right ear.
On Monday, Comperatore’s widow revealed his final act of bravery: recounting his last words as he protected them from the bullets that ended his life.
“Get down!” he yelled as he moved in to put his body between the shooter and his family.
“He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore told the New York Post from the couple’s home in Sarver, Pennsylvania. “He just said, ‘get down!’ That was the last thing he said.”
