Suspect in editor's slaying is booked

[Heidi]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(08-04) 12:53 PDT OAKLAND -- A suspect in the daylight ambush shooting death of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was being formally booked today on suspicion of murder, authorities said.

Devaughndre Broussard, 19, was in the process of being booked at the Alameda County jail in downtown Oakland in connection with Thursday's slaying of Chauncey Bailey, 57, at 14th and Alice streets.

Broussard was a handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery who confessed to police Friday night that he ambushed and killed Bailey with a shotgun because he was upset with the journalist's coverage of the group, the Oakland Tribune reported today. Bailey was a former Tribune reporter.

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Broussard was among seven people arrested during a series of predawn raids Friday by police investigating Bailey's killing and the slayings of two men four days apart in July. Also in custody was Yusuf Bey IV, the son of the late leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery who has since taken over the organization.


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[acmavm]

1. There must be one hell of a story buried in this murder...

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"...he ambushed and killed Bailey with a shotgun because he was upset with the journalist's coverage of the group."

[Judi Lynn]

2. What a miserable shame. At least it seems they've got a way to find out why this happened,

and maybe get a complete revelation of the story he was pursuing which offended this group to the point they would have ever considered killing him.

The world needs MORE, NOT FEWER journalists willing to risk it all to throw light on subjects people are trying to hide which affect us all. What a shame his voice is silenced.