Derwin Brown (1954–December 15 2000) was a police captain and the sheriff-elect of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, who was assassinated on the evening of December 15 2000. Brown was a 23-year veteran of the DeKalb County 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 County Police Department. Brown was shot in front of his home fifteen 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. At trial, the family's attorney, Steve Leibel, showed the jury how Dorsey and his deputies conspired to assassinate Brown. Casey Gilson's efforts resulted in a jury verdict of more than 750 million dollars in favor of the Brown family. Although the family has thus far been unable to collect any of those monies, the jury verdict was the largest in Georgia history. On July 13, 2007, Dorsey confessed to investigators that he had ordered Deputy Patrick Cuffy to carry out the killing at Brown's home on Dec. 15, 2000. Brown was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
