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Longtime Powell professor killed in accident

POWELL (WNE) — A longtime professor at Northwest College died last week after being run over by a vehicle on a Coulter Avenue sidewalk. 

Dennis Brophy, 75, had been walking in front of Rimrock Tire when a customer pulled out of the business s parking lot and struck him, said Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt. 

The driver of the vehicle, 21-year-old Shay Dillon of Powell, had been attempting to make a right-hand turn onto the state highway. 

Dillon reported that he had been looking to the left (east) for oncoming traffic and never saw Brophy ap...