Derwin Brown

Derwin Brown

Derwin Brown

Police Captain Derwin Brown (1954-2000) was the sheriff-elect of the DeKalb County, Georgia police department when he was assassinated on the evening of December 15 2000. Brown was a 23-year veteran of the DeKalb police department when he was elected to the position of sheriff on a platform of cleaning up the corruption and graft that had historically troubled the DeKalb police department. Brown was shot in front of his home 15 times with a Tec-9 handgun and died on the scene. Defeated incumbent, former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey, was convicted of ordering Brown's assassination. Details that came to light in the trial suggested that Dorsey ordered the killing in order to obstruct an expected probe into corruption occurring during his own tenure as sheriff.

The law firm of Casey Gilson Leibel P.C. filed suit on behalf of the Brown Family against those involved in the killing of sheriff-elect Derwin Brown. At trial, the Brown Family's attorney, Steve Leibel, showed the jury how DeKalb County, Georgia, sheriff Sidney Dorsey and his deputies conspired to assassinate sheriff-elect Derwin Brown. Casey Gilson's efforts resulted in a jury verdict of more than 750 million dollars in favor of the Brown Family. Though the Brown family has thus far been unable to collect any of those monies, the jury verdict was the largest in Georgia history and demonstrated the tremendous value of Dorsey's life to the Atlanta community.

Brown was a distinguished member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.