Derwin Brown is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 22, 1954 in Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States.
On December 15, 2000, former Deputy Melvin Walker shot Brown twelve times with a TEC-9 handgun in front of his suburban Atlanta home. Walker was promised a promotion to deputy sheriff if he killed Brown. David Ramsey, the backup shooter and getaway driver, was promised a job as a detention officer. Defeated incumbent and 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 to obstruct an expected probe into corruption during his tenure as sheriff.
Derwin and Phyllis Brown had 5 children and 12 grandchildren. Brown’s wife, Phyllis Brown, died on Christmas Eve 2006 of heart failure after suffering a debilitating stroke, nine days after leading a candlelight vigil in honor of the anniversary of her husband’s murder.
