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Article: Cops: Antar Bey killing not political
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 12, 2007
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The Bey family was believed to be in the midst of a violent power
struggle over control of Your Black Muslim Bakery when then-leader
Antar Bey drove his black BMW 745 sedan into a Union 76 gas station
at 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way two years ago.
Just a year before, Bey, 23, a member of a younger faction of the
bakery and son of founder Yusuf Bey, had taken control of the
operation days after his predecessor, Waajid Aljawwaad Bey,
disappeared. Aljawwaad Bey's body was later found in a shallow
grave. Police believe he was the victim of an assassination.
In June 2005 another family leader, John Bey, had been shot
several times in a failed assassination attempt. A group of ...