Oakland man sentenced to life for journalist's murder

[The Northerner]

(Reuters) - The former leader of an Oakland-based black community organization was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for the murders of three men, including a journalist working on an expose about the group.

Yusuf Bey IV, 25, was sentenced by an Alameda County Superior Court judge to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole for the murders of Chauncey Bailey, Odell Roberson and Michael Wills in the summer of 2007.

Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post, was the first U.S.-based journalist targeted and murdered for his work on a story in over a decade, said the Committee to Protect Journalists.

At the time of his death Bailey, 57, had been working on an expose about the Oakland-based Your Black Muslim Bakery, an African American business and community organization headed by Bey.

Bey ordered two of his followers, Antoine Mackey and Devaughndre Broussard, to kill Bailey because he believed the story would be "slanderous," prosecutors said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/27/us-journalist-murder-idUSTRE77Q05V20110827

[demosincebirth]

1. He was never a leader of the Oakland black community. nt

[The Northerner]

2. I think he was described as a leader of "an" Oakland-based black community organization

and not "the" Oakland black community.

[demosincebirth]

3. His father was. He was hoodlum and a con artist just like his father