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Derwin Brown: “Who Shot the Sheriff?”

Derwin Brown was a police captain and sheriff-elect of Dekalb County, Georgia. He was assassinated on the evening of December 15, 2000, after his defeated political rival, Sidney Dorsey, reportedly promised promotions to the men who carried out the shooting. Brown was the firstborn child of Burvena and George Robert Brown. He was born on June 22, […]

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