The family of the firefighter who was killed during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has spoken out, shortly after his killer’s body was revealed to have ‘gone’ after being quietly cremated 10 days after the attack.
A month after Corey Comperatore lost his life at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, his widow Helen and two daughters Allyson and Kaylee said they don’t him to just be remembered as ‘the man shot at a rally.’
‘He was just a wonderful man,’ Helen told Action4News. ‘Just remember Corey as he was — a great man who was a great father, great husband.’
The grieving family said they believe Corey’s ‘blood is on the hands’ of the law enforcement in charge of the rally, amid growing scrutiny over apparent security lapses that allowed the shooting to unfold.
Their interview comes as Congressman Clay Higgins revealed last night Thomas Matthew Crooks‘ body was cremated within days of the shooting after being quietly returned to his family.
Higgins accused the FBI of a ‘scorched earth’ investigation.
‘On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc,’ Higgins said in a damning report.
When he was shot dead at the rally, Corey was struck in the head as he dove on top of his wife and daughters at the same moment Secret Service agents raced to cover Trump on stage.
His widow praised him as a ‘hero’, saying he ‘saved his wife, he saved his child and he was just the best guy. He was just the best.’
Allyson said she remembered the exact moment shots rang out at the event, as her father sprang into action and threw her to the floor.
‘As he was throwing me down, that is when he was shot and he ended up falling on me,’ she told Action4News. ‘I don’t remember any other shots. In that moment, I was trying to take care of him. I was really confused when he was on me.
‘I had turned around, I went, ‘Dad’ — he fell down, and that’s when I started screaming and I was trying to keep him from bleeding.’
