Another Hail of Bullets in Georgia

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In the meantime, DeKalb County finally has a sheriff. A special election last Tuesday gave the office to interim sheriff Thomas Brown (no relation to Derwin Brown), who took 81% of the vote in a field of seven candidates. At his victory party, Thomas Brown's security cordon was as thick as a President's. Derwin Brown's widow Phyllis, who wants to open a youth club in her slain husband's honor, says that since the shoot-out, she and her family have applied for gun permits. Says Ron Brown, her brother-in-law: "Obviously, people are getting nervous somewhere. The walls are starting to shake a little bit, and people are getting more desperate."

--With reporting by Anne Berryman and Mike Billips/Decatur