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Mitchell White had dinner with Mylan Hicks two weekends ago, when the Ottawa Redblacks were in Calgary to play the Stampeders.

It was the kind of thing former college football teammates do when their professional squads are in the same city.

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So, when a player-personnel staffer sent him a text on Sunday and asked if White knew Hicks from his days at Michigan State University, White first thought the Redblacks were at least considering adding his former teammate to their own roster.

“I swear to you I thought they were going to bring Mylan in here to replace me, and I was getting ready to call him,” White said Wednesday.

Unfortunately, a followup text provided the shattering news that Hicks, a member of the Stampeders’ practice squad, had been shot and killed outside the Marquee nightclub in Calgary early Sunday morning.

A 19-year-old Calgary man, Nelson Lugela, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Hicks.