FOX NEWS UPDATE: 'Family members identified Corey Comperatore as the rally goer who was killed Saturday in an assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Comperatore, 50, was a former fire chief for Buffalo Township, a volunteer fire service, local news station WPXI reported. He was shot and killed when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump from a sniper's perch some 130 yards away during the campaign event.
Two others were critically injured in the shooting, authorities said, while former president Trump's ear was grazed in the deadly attack.
The victim's sister, Dawn Comperatore Schafer, wrote in a Facebook post that Corey "was a hero that shielded his daughters."
"His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable," Dawn Comperatore Schafer wrote.
"My baby brother just turned 50 and had so much life left to experience. Hatred has no limits and love has no bounds. Pray for my sister-in-law, nieces, my mother, sister, me and his nieces and nephews as this feels like a terrible nightmare but we know it is our painful reality."
The post was accompanied by a photograph of Corey celebrating his 50th birthday.
According to witnesses at the rally, one victim was shot in the head, now assumed to be Comperatore. An emergency room doctor at the rally revealed how he performed CPR on a member of the crowd, per reports.
Another family member, Allyson Comperatore, believed to be the victim's daughter, also took to Facebook to share her loss and paid an emotional tribute.
"Yesterday time stopped. And when it started again, my family and I started living a real-life nightmare," Allyson wrote. "He was the best dad a girl could ask for."
She posted several photos of him, including images of Comperatore fishing and with a birthday cake.
"The media will not tell you that he died a real-life super hero. They are not going to tell you how quickly he threw my mom and I to the ground. They are not going to tell you that he shielded my body from the bullet that came at us."
"He loved his family. He truly loved us enough to take a bullet for us." '
A GoFundMe set up for his family has already raised nearly $80,000.
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