DAR AL HARB - U.S.A. - CALIFORNIA: THE BLACK MOSLEM BAKERY & THE JIHADIST AMONGST THEM

Police: Oakland Post editor's killer confesses to slaying
By Harry Harris, Kristin Bender and Kelly Rayburn

A 19-year-old handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery admitted to police Friday night that he ambushed and killed Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, investigators said.

Police said Devaughndre Broussard told them he killed Bailey because he was angry over stories the journalist had written about the bakery, its employees and leaders in the past. Investigators said Broussard also was concerned about stories that he thought Bailey might be working on.

Bailey had apparently been working on a story about the group and its finances, authorities said.
Broussard made the admission to Sgts. Derwin Longmire and Lou Cruz. Broussard had been arrested at his home Friday morning in the 1000 block of 59th Street in Oakland, where police recovered the shotgun that they believe was used to kill Bailey the day before.

Police said Broussard had found out where Bailey lived and before the killing Friday morning had gone to the newspaper's office to see if he was there. When he found that Bailey had not arrived at work yet, he began driving around in a van looking for him and spottedhim in the 200 block of 14th Street, where he confronted him and shot him several times with the shotgun.

Expended shotgun shells found at the scene were matched to the shotgun recovered at Broussard's residence, police said. Broussard had worked at the bakery as a handyman and occasional cook for eight months before leaving in March to find other employment. But when he could not find a job he returned to the bakery about a month ago and was given a post again, police said.

Broussard is currently on probation for a San Francisco robbery. He is scheduled to be booked on suspicion of murder today.

Six other people who were arrested in a raid at the bakery Friday morning were still being interviewed late Friday night, but no one else was expected to be booked on murder charges.

Those arrested included Yusuf Bey IV, the son of the Black Muslim Bakery founders.

Those in custody Friday were arrested in past assaults, gun attacks and a kidnapping. Two others are still being sought by police.

They have not been formally arrested in connection with any killings, including the slaying of Bailey, but homicide Lt. Ersie Joyner III said police believe they have the people responsible for Bailey's death in custody.

Officers from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, and police departments in Fremont, Hayward, Livermore and Alameda assisted with the raids.

Lorna Brown, an Oakland attorney who has represented the Beys in the past, did not return calls for comment.

Bailey, a former Oakland Tribune reporter, was walking to the Oakland Post, a free weekly that covers the African-American community, when he was gunned down at 14th and Alice streets about 7:25 a.m. Thursday.

Walter Riley, an attorney for the Oakland Post, said Bailey had been working on a story about "the financial status of the organization" and the "activities of a number of people who were working in the organization," including possible criminal activity.

Riley said the newspaper was unable to verify key details of the story and decided not to run it, possibly abandoning the article altogether.

Bailey was known for not shrinking from any source, said Donna Ayo, a founder of the youth community group BARONS Bridges. Ayo, who knew Bailey for 14 years, said that included the Black Muslim Bakery group.

"He was forthright and gave (the group) their due when they were doing positive things," she said. "When they started doing negative things, things that harmed the community, he had to notify the community. ... He made a decision."

Ayo knew Bailey's reporting had angered people affiliated with the Black Muslim Bakery. "But they're not above the board," she said. "They (the Black Muslim Bakery members) don't get a pass."

Late Black Muslim patriarch Yusuf Bey founded the bakery four decades ago. He built the organization on ideals of black empowerment, respect and self-reliance. In recent years, the group has been tied to murders, racism, sexual assaults on young girls and vandalism.

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