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Butler Back For NIU 3/28/12

By: Scott Leber

Updated: March 29, 2012

DeKalb, Illinois-NIU's Devon Butler is back playing football again one year after being a victim of an off-campus shooting.

Last April he was hit in a drive-by shooting while sitting in a friend's apartment. Wednesday he was back on the field for NIU's first spring practice.

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