the actor's death comes after losing his legs in a hit and run incident in 2019 Obi defo who starred in Dawson's Creek has died he was 51 the actor and yoga teacher's death was announced by his sister and Kem defo in a post on Facebook on Saturday August 31st no details of the cause of his death were given heartbroken at the loss of my younger brother and knowing he's finally at peace and Kem wrote She ply shared a photo alongside her announcement showing her and Obby smiling and embracing Outdoors people has reached out to encm for further information on the actor's death Obie was a graduate of Yale University's drama school according to his profile on La Theater Works he acted on several television shows including on The West Wing Star Trek Voyager Stargate sg1 and the Jamie Fox show his best known role was body Wells on Dawson's Creek which he appeared in from 1998 to 2002 following the announcement of his death Mary Margaret Humes who played Dawson's mom Gail ly on the show paid tribute to Obie on Instagram these words don't come easy Humes 70 wrote 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 you set as you faced 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 she concluded tagging original Dawson's Creek cast members Katie Holmes Joshua Jackson James vanderbeek and a few others Humes also shared a montage video of behind the scenes moments with Obie on the set of the show as the actor hugged holes 45 during a rehearsal scene and joked with Vander beak 47 while filming Outdoors she also posted a throwback photo of her and Obby embracing ob's death comes after he lost both of his legs after being hit by a car on August 17th 2019 the actor had been packing up groceries in his parked car after visiting a supermarket in La when an SUV eared out of its Lane and crashed into him severing his right leg and leaving his left leg left hanging for the Los Angeles time Obie ended up having his left leg amputated speaking about life after his accident Obie told the Los Angeles Times how do you know how you would handle this and anyway what's the alternative this is just so horrendous what happened to me why would I compound this by feeling bad about it there is no other choice for me so there's a sort of rigger to me and I think okay my legs are severed I don't know how to do this but I know how to to do this a GoFundMe page setup for Obi in 2020 raised over $200,000 to cover the costs of prosthetic legs for the actor and the remodeling of his Silver Lake home to be more accessible for him