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Article: Police tie gun that killed Bailey to other crimes
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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OAKLAND -- The shotgun police said was used by a member of Your
Black Muslim Bakery to kill Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey on
Aug. 2 also was used in a failed June 2005 assassination attempt on
a former high-ranking member of the bakery organization, authorities
confirmed Wednesday.
Police say the same shotgun was used last December to blast out
the windows of a car belonging to the ex-boyfriend of the girlfriend
of Yusuf Bey IV, the now-jailed leader of the bakery empire. Bey IV,
21, ascended to power after his older brother, Antar Bey, 24, was
slain in October 2005 during an attempted carjacking.
Linking the shotgun to the attempted shooting of John Bey is the
first public ...