Bakery Handyman Pleads Guilty To Killing Two Journalists
A latimes.com article reported on May 8, 2009 that a former bakery handyman has confessed to fatally shooting a writer who was writing about the bakery’s financial troubles in addition to also killing another man just a few weeks earlier. Devaughndre Broussard, 21, entered his admission to two counts of voluntary manslaughter in California as part of an arrangement with prosecutors. Broussard confessed to killing Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey and another man.
Family members of Baily, sat present in Alameda County Superior Court, as Broussard told Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson that he was guilty of manslaughter in Bailey’s death.
The agreement worked with prosecutors requires that Broussard be sentenced to 25 years in prison in exchange for his declaration against two other bakery employees. Broussard has testified in front of a grand jury that Yusuf Bey IV, leader of the now non-operational Your Black Muslim Bakery, ordered the hit on Bailey and Roberson. The confession stated that Antoine Mackey, bakery associate, was the getaway driver. Both will be in court to enter their pleas to murder charges.
According to Broussard Big financial rewards were promised to him for carrying out the shootings.
Aundra Dixon, 42, said, “I felt he was being responsible. He was taking responsibility for what he had done.”
An institution in Oakland’s black community for more than 40 years, Your Black Muslim Bakery, has operated a bakery, school, and provided security. Recently bakery associates including Bey, have been blamed for several crimes, including a string of vandalism on liquor stores in 2005 and the kidnapping and torture of two women in 2007.
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