An off-duty Las Vegas police officer who was killed by a gunman shooting from a hotel into a crowded country music concert is laid to rest at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Charleston Hartfield was buried Friday following private graveside services. Hartfield was also a veteran of the US Army.
The burial came after a funeral that drew more than 2,000 family members, friends and police and military officers, with honors that included a motorcade down the Las Vegas Strip.
Pallbearers move the casket of Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield during a funeral, October 20, 2017, in Henderson, Nevada. (Chase Stevens /Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool)
Central Christian Church Pastor Mike Ellingsen said the service held in Henderson was followed by the burial in Boulder City.
The 34-year-old Hartfield was a married father of two and an 11-year police veteran who had served in Iraq and the Nevada Army National Guard in Las Vegas.
He was off-duty and attending the October 1 concert where a gunman killed 58 people and injured hundreds of others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo says Hartfield’s death was considered on-duty because he tried to shield, protect and shepherd people to safety.
— AP
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