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Investigators have identified the man struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Tuscaloosa Thursday afternoon as a local 21-year-old man.
Sgt. Dale Phillips, the commander of the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit, said the victim was Cecil Dillon Ross, who was struck by the train and killed around 1 p.m. Thursday.
Phillips said witnesses reported that Ross was wearing headphones while walking down the track and may have never heard the train coming.
The bodies of two people, including a teenager, were found Wednesday in plane wreckage in a swamp here.
The victims have been identified as Dean Legidakes, 67, and Marli McManus, 15.
The Great Lakes 2T1 bi-plane that they were on went down in a deeply wooded swamp area about 1½ miles northeast of the Shields Airport in Lillian, Baldwin County Sheriff's Office Capt. Steve Arthur said.
Legidakes and McManus left Ferguson airfield in Pensacola, Fla., at about 10 a.m. Wednesday to go sightseeing, Arthur said.