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5-star football recruit from Orlando ‘devastated’ by mass shooting

TAMPA — As Calvin Ashley slept at home early Sunday, the worst mass shooting in United States history happened in his hometown of Orlando, Fla.

FBI, Orlando Police Department and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office personnel investigate the attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.,early Sunday, before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. It was the worst mass shooting in American history. (Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP)

A gunman opened fire inside a downtown nightclub and killed at least 50 people, according to reports.