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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Well-known East Alabama musician Edwin "Peck" Rowell  was killed on Wednesday when a Volkswagen Jetta driven by an 18-year-old Auburn man crossed the center line and struck the Ford Ranger Rowell was riding in head on near the intersection of Richland Road on Shug Jordan Parkway in Lee County, Alabama. Rowell was airlifted to University Hospital in Birmingham, where he died of multiple injuries. The driver of the Ranger, a 40-year-old woman from Notasulga, along with the 18-year-old Auburn man sustained non-life threatening injuries.