Dawson's Creek Alum Obi and defo has died at the age of 51 the actor sister enk and defo announces his passing on Facebook August 31st sharing a selfie of her and Obie writing heartbroken at the loss of my younger brother and knowing he's finally at peace Obie's cause of death hasn't been made public enus has reached out to his rep but hasn't yet heard back Obie who attended Yale University's drama school starred in shows such as the West Wing Star Trek Voyager and the Jamie Fox show however he was best known for his role as bod Wells on Dawson's Creek Mary Margaret Humes who played character Gail Lei in the teen drama series takes to her Instagram to mourn the loss of her former co-star posting a montage video Behind the scene's moments from Dawson's Creek she writes these words don't come easy it's hard for me to conceive that you have left us my dear friend you always were and always will be a bright shining light what an example of pure unfiltered love and tenacity you set as you face life's challenges of recent I will cherish all of our messages of love and support to each other over the past few years rest in peace sweet Warrior the news of Obie's passing comes 5 years after the actor turn yoga teacher lost both his legs in a hit-and-run car crash according to the Los Angeles Times he was hit outside of a grocery store by a speeding driver which left his right leg severed and his left leg being amputated with Obie telling the outlet at the time how he was doing both mentally and physically following the traumatic accident explaining this is just so horrendous what happened to me why would I compound this by feeling bad about it I couldn't live in this world without becoming sort of an Olympic athlete of certain things you know of kind and of health because there was no other choice for me so there's a sort of rigor to me and I think okay my legs are severed I don't know how to do this but I know how to do this [Music]