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I was like, i'm so proud of you. i told him, i said, i'm tired. i will just see you in the morning at breakfast and we'll continue. i'm thinking of going back to the house. he said, okay, that's fine. i'm going to sit here a while longer. he was talking to someone. and i'm headed on home. >> at about 11:00 p.m., brown drove home alone. he parked at the curb. phyllis was inside watching tv with robert crowder and her son, michael. michael saw derwin walk toward the house carrying roses and some christmas gifts. >> he saw his dad coming down the driveway toward the door. and he -- you know, he s...

Derwin brown was dead. the popular former police captain who campaigned for sheriff and won on the promise of reform, was gunned down in his front yard just before christmas 2000, 3 days before he was to be inaugurated. >> it was like a dream. i guess because i really thought i was in a dream, i had -- you know, i dreamt that i was strong and took care of business the way derwin would have wanted me to take care of business. >> i was in shock. i was -- i was just in shock. i couldn't do anything. >> it was clear to police by the type of weapon, a tech .9, a pistol favored by career criminals a...

Here is what is happening right now. the northeast continuing to dig out after deadly storms that took a heavy toll on several states. the wintry blast knocked out power to more than 3 million homes. and a new report indicates that president obama and the pen pentagon will send more troops to the gulf. and they plan to continue troops in that region. the investigation into the shooting of derwin brown on december 15th, 2000, was dead in the water for nearly a year. and now a stunning turn of events. outgoing sheriff sidney dorsey was arrested and charged with ordering the ambush and assass...

A crime that affects not only the family and the community but the very system that we all support and that supports us. >> again the brown family, with phyllis continuing to weaken, was present every day of the trial at the federal courthouse in atlanta. it was the third trial since derwin brown died. u.s. attorneys tried to show how dorsey and the four co-conspirators spent four months planning the murder and how they conducted surveillance on brown about 20 times before they killed him. >> you're going to see diagrams of where this horrible tragedy took place. >> it's just so upsetting. eve...

Who would want the sheriff elect assassinated? >> brown had been preparing to shake things up at the jail, secretly meeting with the district attorney swapping stories about corruption by outgoing sheriff, sidney dorsey. >> i just had dinner with derwin a week before he was murdered, and then to see him later in the morgue right before the autopsy started was one of those images i will never forget. >> the killing of derwin brown just made no sense at all. the only real enemy he had was sid dorsey. but it didn't make sense that dorsey would have been behind it because dorsey didn't have anythi...