His son, Henry McCoy Hatfield, is named after his favorite X-Men character, as well as the famous family feud of his namesake.
As an infant, David was present with his parents at the Ramstein air show disaster that occurred on Sunday, 28 August 1988 at the Flugtag '88 airshow, held at the US Ramstein Air Base near the city of Kaiserslautern, West Germany.