LAS VEGAS --  A former Fort Bragg soldier is one of the more than 50 people killed in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.           

The Nevada National Guard says 34-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Charles Hartfield was shot and killed at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival.

Hartfield was a Las Vegas police officer and not on duty at the concert.

Guardsmen who served with Hartfield — formerly of the 82nd Airborne Division before joining the Nevada Army National Guard in 2004 — described the 6-foot-4, 247-pound soldier as a “gentle giant.”

“The biggest thing that sticks out from him, besides his enormous size, as tough as he was, that man was all love,” said Master Sgt. Lemuel Iniguez, a Nevada Army National Guard recruiter who led an Army combatives class with Hartfield for eight years. “He would do anything for his Soldiers, if they needed it, without question, without fail. He was that kind of a Soldier. If you were a good troop or needed help, he’d do anything for you.”

Hartfield also published a biography called "Memoirs of a Public Servant," which documented his career with the Las Vegas Police Department.

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