Former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey has died at age 86 while serving a life sentence for ordering the 2000 killing of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown.

Sidney Dorsey was convicted in the December 2000 murder of sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, roughly a month after Dorsey had lost to Brown that year.

A DeKalb County woman was mauled to death by her dogs Tuesday, leading to an overcapacity crisis at the local animal shelter.

Sidney Dorsey, the former DeKalb County sheriff convicted of ordering the assassination of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, has died in state prison at age 86.

The Augusta State Medical Prison inmate, who confessed to his 2000 crime in prison in 2007, died of natural causes at 86, the Georgia Department of Corrections says.

Sidney Dorsey ordered the assassination DeKalb County sheriff Derwin Brown in 2000.

A shooting at a DeKalb County home ended with a child rushed to the hospital and their adult brother in custody, police say.

The family of Arben Pilici has filed a lawsuit against DeKalb County after he suffocated in the back of a police car during a February 2024 welfare check at his home.

Officials did not provide information regarding a suspect, but said charges are expected to be filed.

The numbers are "pretty frightening," according to a panel moderator at the Georgia Bar, Media & Judiciary Conference held Feb. 20.