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Killebrew shaken to learn friends were shot in Vegas

Allen Park — When Lions safety Miles Killebrew woke up on Monday morning, his phone was flooded with text messages from his friends back home.

Killebrew, who grew up less than 20 miles from Las Vegas in Henderson, Nevada, initially was puzzled.

That’s until he read the crippling news about the Las Vegas strip massacre, where a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel into a crowd of over 22,000 at an outdoor country music festival Sunday night. According to authorities, at least 58 people were killed and 515 were injured, making it the deadliest mass shooting in U.