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Country Star Blake Shelton Comforts Mourning Warren School

WARREN (AP) — One of country music's biggest stars is comforting a local school mourning the deaths of three students.

Blake Shelton recorded a minute-long message that was included in a longer tribute video to the Quaboag Regional Middle/High School students who died Nov. 6 car crash in West Brookfield.

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Blake Shelton (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Shelton's brother died in a crash nearly three decades ago.

"I can understand how you guys feel. It's the worst possible feeling. It's confusion. It's anger. It's just an overall brokenness that's just gonna take a lot of time to heal," Shelton says.

Shelton learned of the deaths through his mother, who grew up with the father of a member of Quaboag's school committee.

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A Nov. 8 vigil at the West Brookfield common for three teens killed in a car crash. (WBZ-TV)

The crash took the lives of 14-year-old Jaclyn Desrosiers, 15-year-old Christian Congelos and the driver, 16-year-old Lena Noonan.

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