Kelly Dillaha and her husband, Scott, were watching television in their Birmingham home Monday evening when their phones started blowing up with texts asking if their twin sons, Aidan and Brandon Johnson-Hill, students at Michigan State University, were OK.
They switched to a news channel and learned the East Lansing campus was on lockdown. A gunman had opened fire in two buildings, killing three students and wounding five others.
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