{"id":125310,"date":"2017-10-20T04:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=125310"},"modified":"2017-10-20T04:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:19:44","slug":"off-duty-officer-killed-in-vegas-shooting-to-be-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/20\/off-duty-officer-killed-in-vegas-shooting-to-be-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Off duty officer killed in Vegas shooting to be honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_125314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125314\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kevin-McMahill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125314\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kevin-McMahill.jpg\" alt=\"Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters several days later that although Hartfield was off-duty when the shooting started, he died trying to help others. (Photo: LVMPD)\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kevin-McMahill.jpg 336w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Kevin-McMahill-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters several days later that although Hartfield was off-duty when the shooting started, he died trying to help others. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvmpd.com\/en-us\/PublishingImages\/Pages\/officeofthesheriff-UndersheriffKevinMcMahill\/US_Kevin_McMahill_websm.jpg\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvmpd.com\/en-us\/Pages\/default.aspx\">LVMPD<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HENDERSON, Nev. \u2014 An off-duty Las Vegas police officer who was killed by a gunman shooting from a hotel into a crowded outdoor concert will be remembered Friday with church and graveside ceremonies and a procession past the site of the Oct. 1 massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Charleston Hartfield will receive full departmental honours Friday during a motorcade on the Las Vegas Strip, at a church auditorium in Henderson and during private burial at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Hartfield was one of 58 people killed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival country music concert on the Las Vegas Strip in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters several days later that although Hartfield was off-duty when the shooting started, he died trying to help others.<\/p>\n<p>Hartfield, who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq and the Nevada Army National Guard in Las Vegas, was an 11-year police veteran and an instructor in the body camera deployment program.<\/p>\n<p>He recently authored a book about life as a police officer, called \u201cMemoirs Of A Public Servant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old father of two also coached youth football in his hometown of Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>Hartfield&#8217;s funeral at Central Christian Church in Henderson comes 15 days after a department candlelight remembrance held Oct. 5 at Police Memorial Park in northwest Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON, Nev. \u2014 An off-duty Las Vegas police officer who was killed by a gunman shooting from a hotel into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":125314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[24089,28697,28698],"class_list":["post-125310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-honor","tag-las-vegas-police-officer","tag-vegas-shooting","mauthors-ken-ritter","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}