Sunday’s horror in Las Vegas has hit, personally, a past Tigers player and current Tigers minor-league manager.
Gerald Laird departed Wednesday from Tigers Instructional Camp at Lakeland, Fla., to be with family in Las Vegas, where his first cousin, Christiana Duarte, 22, was among those killed Sunday in the mass shooting there.
Duarte had graduated last spring from the University of Arizona and was working with the Los Angeles Rams following an internship with the Diamondbacks and a summer position with the L.A. Kings.
“I was in Lakeland, in my hotel room, when I got the phone call about 3:30 in the morning, saying she was missing,” Laird said.