Mobile man charged with murder in deadly Auburn crash
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
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A Mobile man has been charged with murder in an August crash that killed a 20-year-old woman in Auburn.
Fabian Aviance Deshawn Smith, 43, was arrested Monday by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and Auburn and Mobile police. Killed in the Aug. 28 crash was Brantley Rayanna Powell, who had just moved to the area to go to school.
She and one of her friends were heading back to their apartment about 9 p.m. that Friday night when their vehicle was struck head on by a pickup truck driven by Smith. Authorities said Powell was traveling eastbound on Shug Jordan Parkway when the westbound Smith crossed into her lane and struck her vehicle.
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