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CABOT, Penn. – Billy Ray Cyrus attended the funeral on Friday of Corey Comepratore, a volunteer firefighter, husband and father who was killed by gunfire final Saturday at a rally for former President Donald Trump.
The “Achy Breaky Coronary heart” singer was noticed taking images and shaking palms with cops exterior the Cabot United Methodist Church in Cabot, Pennsylvania on Friday morning.
“Corey Comperatore is an Military Reserve veteran and former hearth chief. Billy Ray Cyrus has all the time been enthusiastic about honoring troops and first responders. Right now he was honored to affix the household and carry out on the service,” a supply advised Fox Information Digital on Friday.
The funeral for Comperatore, 50, drew a whole lot of relations, pals and native legislation enforcement officers — each state and federal — to Cabot. Butler County residents, together with those that knew the Comperatore household and people who did not, lined the agricultural roads across the church with American flags and indicators honoring Comperatore.
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Billy Ray Cyrus carried out at Corey Comperatore’s funeral on Friday, July 19 in Cabot, PA. (Fox Information Digital)
Billy Ray Cyrus carried out at Corey Comperatore’s funeral on Friday, July 19 in Cabot, PA. (Fox Information Digital)
“American Hero Corey Comperatore,” learn one signal. One other referred to as the volunteer firefighter a “true hero.”
Comperatore died after being shot at a rally whereas defending his household.
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Firefighters carry the casket of Corey Comperatore, a retired volunteer hearth chief who was shot useless within the assault on Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump, on the day of his non-public funeral at Cabot Church in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 19, 2024. (REUTERS/Eduardo Muñoz)
This undated photograph from the Buffalo Township, Pa., Volunteer Fireplace Firm reveals former Buffalo Township Fireplace Chief Corey Comperatore. Comperatore was killed in a taking pictures throughout a marketing campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. (Buffalo Township Volunteer Fireplace Division through AP)
Former President Trump remembered the fallen firefighter Thursday evening on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee, with Comperatore’s firefighter jacket and helmet displayed on stage.
Neighborhood members mourn the dying of Corey Comperatore on the morning of his funeral at Cabot United Methodist Church in Cabot, Pennsylvania, on Friday, July 19, 2024. Comperatore, a former hearth chief and father of two, was killed Saturday after being shot by the potential Trump murderer in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Derek Shook for Fox Information Digital)
“He misplaced his life selflessly serving as a human protect to guard them from flying bullets… what a wonderful man he was,” Trump stated throughout his speech on the RNC on Thursday“There isn’t a larger love than to put down your life for others.
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“That is the spirit that solid America in her darkest hours, and that is the love that can lead America again to the head of human achievement and greatness.”
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Comperatore served 10 years within the U.S. Military Reserve, was the captain of the Buffalo Volunteer Fireplace Division within the early 2000s, and was a churchgoing, loving father and husband.
Fox Information’ Chris Eberhart contributed to this report.
Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox Information Digital and FOX Enterprise. Ship ideas by e mail to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
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