Ambush Undoes an Election
By Ray Glier Special to The Washington Post Monday, December
25, 2000; Page A03
DECATUR, Ga. -- Derwin Brown was riding into office as
sheriff-elect of DeKalb County the way television sheriffs
rode into crime-ridden towns in the Old West. Derwin Brown
was going to run the bad guys out of Dodge or, in this case,
the DeKalb County jail, the largest jail east of the
Mississippi.
For 30 years, the county had elected sheriffs who had become
tainted by scandal and ended up in jail, thrown out of
office, or subject to intense investigation. Brown vowed to
"clean house" and end the cycle of corruption.
He never got the keys to the jail. The 46-year-old father of
five, who was to be sworn into office in January, was gunned
down on the night of Dec. 15 as he walked up the driveway of
his home in suburban Atlanta. He was hit with 11 bullets in a
barrage of 16 shots from a 9mm automatic weapon and was
pronounced dead at the hospital.
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