The family of a Gloucester High School hockey standout announced Thursday morning he would not be recovering from injuries sustained in a car crash early Monday morning on Route 128.

The announcement comes after hundreds turned out to Our Lady of Good Voyage Church on Prospect Street and spilled out into the street Wednesday evening to pray and celebrate a healing Mass for 18-year-old Christopher Joseph Dailey.

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