Corey comperatore’s american flag-draped casket arrives at church after firefighter was killed at trump rally shooting

Mourners gathered at a Pennsylvania church Friday for the funeral of the volunteer fire chief killed at Donald Trump’s rally last weekend – as the deceased’s casket was carried from the

venue draped in a US flag. The casket of Corey Comperatore, 50, was carried by eight firefighters out of Cabot United Methodist Church as the deceased’s widow and other mourner’s looked on.

The husband and father of two was killed while trying to shield his family when a gunman opened fire from a factory rooftop during Trump’s rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds Saturday

evening. His widow, Helen Comperatore, recalled her husband’s final warning to “Get down!” as the shooter rained bullets into the crowd. “He’s my hero,” Helen told The Post on Monday. “He

just said, ‘Get down!’ That was the last thing he said.” EXPLORE MORE Trump, 78, was grazed by a bullet during the assassination attempt. Two other rally-goers were critically wounded, but

are expected to recover. Trump paid tribute to “our friend Corey” during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night by bringing his fire helmet and jacket

onto the stage. The former president kissed Comperatore’s helmet as he lamented how “he lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets.” Comperatore

was honored with a public procession in Freeport on Thursday. The services will be followed by a procession of up to 500 fire trucks from the church to the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire

Company in Sarver, where Comperatore served for several years, the New York Times reported.  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Friday that she would order state flags lowered to half-staff

in Comperatore’s honor “the day of the funeral” – though she appeared confused about the fact that the funeral was taking place that morning. “We’re looking at that for the day of the

funeral. When’s the funeral? We gotta find out when the funeral is,” Hochul said at the morning presser, according to POLITICO’s Jason Beeferman. A short time later, the governor’s office

issued a formal announcement ordering the flags to be lowered – after the funeral itself was well underway. “Corey Comperatore was a father, a public servant, and a proud American whose life

was taken in a senseless act of violence that shakes at the core of our democracy,” Hochul wrote. “As we honor his memory, let us commit once more to the better angels of our nature, and to

the collective freedoms we enjoy as a nation.”