An aide to slain Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown says he warned Brown against notifying dozens of jail employees of his plan to fire them. But he told me, 'There is nothing they can do that we can't fix. But that never happened. On Dec. 15, Brown was shot 11 times as he returned home from a party celebrating the completion of his sheriff's training.
Authorities call the slaying an assassination.
One of the jailers Brown had planned to fire said Friday he didn't believe the sheriff-elect was slain by anyone connected with the jail. Krug was one of four sheriff's officers fired early Jan. 1, after interim DeKalb Sheriff Thomas E. Brown Jr. took over the office. Thomas Brown, who was director of the county's public safety department and is not related to Derwin Brown, will fill the sheriff's office until a special election March 20. Krug said he thought he might be able to hold on to his job, but on Jan. 1, he was told that he was being fired. I told them what I knew, what little I knew.