A sergeant first class with the Nevada Army National Guard whose time in uniform included a stint with the 82nd Airborne Division was among the victims in Sunday\u2019s mass shooting in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charleston Hartfield, 34, also wore a uniform for his full-time job, serving as a Las Vegas police officer. He spent more than a decade in law enforcement, according to notes on his memoir<\/a>, which he self-published in July. He was off duty at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe would do anything for his soldiers, if they needed it, without question, without fail,\u201d Master Sgt. Lemuel Iniguez said in a Nevada National Guard news release<\/a>. \u201cHe was that kind of a soldier. If you were a good troop or needed help, he\u2019d do anything for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iniguez led a combatives class with the 6-foot-4 Hartfield, per the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fallen NCO joined the Nevada Guard in 2004, shortly after wrapping up a yearlong deployment to Iraq, the release states. He served with the 82nd Airborne and as an instructor at the Nevada Army National Guard\u2019s 421st Regional Training Institute prior to taking on what would become his final assignment as first sergeant of the Guard\u2019s 100th Quartermaster Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hartfield was married and had two children, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>. He also coached youth football; a post on the Henderson (Nevada) Cowboys Facebook page called about \u201cCoach Chucky\u201d said \u201che\u2018d touched many lives both on and off the field. He was a great man who we all lost way [too] early.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n