Online fundraiser for Comperatore family raises $1 million (2024)

CIRCULATION OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE VICTIMS. TONIGHT WE’RE GETTING A CLEARER PICTURE OF WHO CORI COMPARATOR WAS THE RETIRED FIREFIGHTER FROM BUFFALO TOWNSHIP, DIED PROTECTING HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER FROM THE BULLETS AT SATURDAY’S TRUMP RALLY. OUR TOM GARRIS IS LIVE NOW AND TOM, PEOPLE NEAR AND FAR, THEY JUST WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR THIS MAN’S FAMILY. YEAH, SHANNON. THAT’S RIGHT. AND HIS STORY OF HEROISM SHIELDING HIS FAMILY FROM THE GUNFIRE, RESONATING WITH SO MANY FOLKS. TONIGHT, WE SPOKE WITH THE LOCAL ORGANIZER OF AN ONLINE FUNDRAISER FOR THE FAMILY WHO SAYS THE RESPONSE HAS FAR EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS. YOU GOT THIS. IT’S A LITTLE GRIPPY. IT’S FINE. GET THOSE SHOULDERS UP AND BACK, THOUGH, JASON BUB STARTED HIS GYM A FEW YEARS BACK TO HELP PEOPLE, AND NOW THE REST OF THE NATION IS JOINING IN. EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY IS KIND OF PUTTING THEIR PUTTING THEIR $0.02. IN HIS GOFUNDME STARTED FOR ALLISON COMPARATOR AND HER FAMILY HAS BROUGHT IN $1 MILLION. HER FATHER, COREY, WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT THE DONALD TRUMP RALLY IN BUTLER. THIS WEEKEND. HE’S BEING HAILED A HERO FOR SHIELDING HIS FAMILY FROM THE GUNFIRE. I HOPE HE’S REMEMBERED AS THE HERO HE WAS, THE FATHER THAT HE WAS THE, UM, THE HUSBAND THAT HE WAS, UH, IT’S JUST SUCH AN IMPACT TO THIS SMALL AREA. BUT NOW THAT THE WORLD KNOWS ABOUT THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT’S GREAT. BUB TELLS ME ALLISON HAS BEEN A STRONG MEMBER OF THE GYM SINCE DAY ONE. I SEE HER EVERY WEEK HERE. UH, AND THAT’S REALLY WHO I DID. IT FOR. UH, WAS WAS HER ALLISON. SHE’S. SHE’S AN AWESOME CLIENT OF MINE. BUB SAYS HE MET COREY YEARS AGO. THEY BOTH WORKED OUT AT ANOTHER LOCAL GYM. COREY HAD BEEN ON THE POWERLIFTING TEAM THERE TONIGHT. THE RETIRED FIREFIGHTER WHO DIED PROTECTING OTHERS, ALSO REMEMBERED FOR BEING A LOVING DAD. YOU COULD SEE HOW MUCH HE CARED ABOUT THOSE. THOSE GIRLS OF HIS, HIS WIFE AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS AND THOSE GIRLS JUST MEAN THE WORLD TO HIM. AND BUB SAYS HE DOESN’T WANT ANY CREDIT FOR THIS. HE JUST WANTS THE FAMILY TO KNOW THAT HE’S HERE FOR THEM. WE’LL HAVE A LINK TO THAT GOFUNDME ON OUR WEBSITE WTAE.COM FOR NO