Thousands Come Out for Funeral of Officer Slain in Las Vegas Attack

Off-duty Las Vegas Police Officer Charleston Hartfield was one of the 58 people killed when Stephen Haddock fired into a crowd during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last week. Suggested Reading Three Friends Were Headed To A Beyoncรฉ Concert, But One Dies On the Way. Guess What The Other Two Did Next?…

Off-duty Las Vegas Police Officer Charleston Hartfield was one of the 58 people killed when Stephen Haddock fired into a crowd during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last week.

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On Thursday, thousands holding candles came to pay their respects to the 34-year-old husband and father of two at the Police Memorial Park, a Las Vegas park dedicated to fallen officers, according to CNN.

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His wife, his sister and two children, a boy and a girl, sat in the front of the crowd as Hartfieldโ€™s colleagues described the young man, who was a Nevada Army National Guard sergeant first class and a youth football coach known as โ€œCoach Chucky.โ€

โ€œHe would always serve as a shining example to all of us about what is just and right, and how we live our lives,โ€ said one of his colleagues.

โ€œHe led his life with honor, dignity and a great capacity for others,โ€ said another, a detective who had worked with him for years.

Stan King, the father of one of the players on the team, said that Hartfield was โ€œan absolute all-American kind of guy.โ€

King added, โ€œThis kind of guy comes around once in a blue moon. He was a very special guy to the community.โ€

Hartfield had just released a memoir in July, titled Memoirs of a Public Servant, which documents the โ€œthoughts, feelings, and interactions of one Police Officer in the busiest and brightest city in the world, Las Vegas.โ€

Read more at CNN.

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