ALLEN PARK -- Miles Killebrew played one of the most brilliant games of his young Detroit Lions career on Sunday against Minnesota. He played 23 coverage snaps in the win, and did not allow a catch.

Then he woke the next morning to texts asking if he was OK.

He was confused. And then he saw the news. At least 58 were confirmed dead in Las Vegas. More than 500 injured.

Killebrew, a native of nearby Henderson, Nev., was OK because he was in Minnesota. His parents were there too, for which he's thankful, because his mother is a country music fan. And who knows what would have happened if she were back home.

The shooting, considered the deadliest in modern U.S. history, happened at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. That's a three-day country music festival headlined by Jason Aldean, who was on stage playing to an estimated 22,000 people when the massacre began.

Stephen Paddock, a Nevada native, has been identified as the shooter.

Killebrew's family was spared. But some of his friends were not. Six were wounded in the shooting, one of whom remains hospitalized.

"Just love who's around you right now, because this day and age, you never know what's going to happen," Killebrew said after a light walk-through Monday back in Allen Park. "Just show some love to the people around you, if you can. Sometimes that's all you can do."

Killebrew called one of his wounded friends a soulmate, and encouraged people to help however they can, whether that's by donating blood or just offering some love in a tough time.

"It was heartbreaking," he said. "I had texts asking if my family was OK, and I didn't know what they were talking about. So I was able to read and see what was going online, and my heart was broken. That's when I started reaching out to people who I knew back home. That's when I got news of things that were happening. I was able to see online what was going on. It's senseless."

Killebrew said he also has friends who were on the scene as first-responders, seeing bodies strewn all over the Vegas strip.

"The stories are all pretty similar -- guys who weren't even on duty, but went down there just to try to help however they can," he said. "To go from responding to maybe a single incident, to now there's bodies everywhere, you can't unsee stuff like that."