Derwin Brown assassination 25 years later: Former Channel 2 reporter was on same hit list

Monday night marked 25 years since the assassination of DeKalb County Sheriff-Elect Derwin Brown, a murder that shocked Georgia and the nation days before Christmas.

The rival he defeated, former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey, had him killed.

The cold-blooded assassination on Dec. 15, 2000, forever changed the Brown family. It also changed the lives of former Channel 2 Action News reporter Dale Cardwell and his family…

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