The fatality of the attack perpetrated against Donald Trump This Saturday during a rally he was identified as Corey Comperatorea 50-year-old firefighter and family man who apparently He threw himself at his family to protect them from bullets during the attack against the former Republican president.

This was stated by the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who confirmed the identity of the victim after receiving authorization from his wife and stated that “He died like a hero”The Democratic governor said that, according to his wife, the man died while trying to protect his family from the gunfire.

“Corey was an avid supporter of the former president and I was very excited to be with him last night,” added the governor, to whom the family of the deceased has conveyed that had two daughterswho was a firefighter and “went to mass every Sunday” and who “loved his community and, above all, loved his family.”

The victim was 50 years old, according to The New York Times, which quotes her sister, Dawn Comperatore Schafer, who has lamented that “Hatred for one man took the life of the man we loved most“According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Comperatore had served as chief of the Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department.

Shapiro has taken advantage of his appearance to ask all political leaders to “lower the temperature and Overcoming hate rhetoric that exists, and to seek a better and brighter future for this nation.” “The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump last night was absolutely unacceptable and tragic,” he condemned, wishing him a speedy recovery. The governor added that he has spoken with Comperatore’s relatives, as well as one of the two people who were injured.

For its part, Trump was injured in the ear right as a result of the shots fired by the alleged perpetrator of the attack, the 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crookswho was shot dead on the spot by the Secret Service after firing several times at the Republican tycoon from the roof of a nearby building.

The AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used to try to assassinate the former president was legally acquired by his father and authorities found devices containing explosive material in his car and home, according to reports on Sunday.