FRISCO, Texas -- When wide receiver Allen Hurns turned on his television last Valentine’s Day, he was horrified, like millions of Americans.
The scenes from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and staff members were killed in a mass shooting, gripped him. This wasn’t far from the Miami home where he grew up. He had friends with children in the school system and wondered if they were OK. He made calls. He sent text messages. He checked social media.
Over and over.
“I’m big on family, so I can’t imagine what they were going through,” Hurns said.