Bailey slaying defendant testifies against Bey {Your Black Muslim Bakery }

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/21/9 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

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OAKLAND -- The man accused of fatally shooting Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey testified before a grand jury today that he was ordered to commit the killing by the leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, his attorney said.

Devaughndre Broussard, 21, a former handyman at the now-defunct black self-empowerment group, has struck a plea agreement with Alameda County prosecutors under which he agreed to testify against bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and another bakery figure, Antoine Mackey.

In exchange, Broussard has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter, for the 2007 killings of Bailey and Odell Roberson, and be sentenced to 25 years in state prison.

Broussard began his testimony at 10:40 a.m. in the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in downtown Oakland, about 12 blocks from where Bailey, 57, was shot to death by a masked gunman Aug. 2, 2007, as he walked to work.

Broussard, the only person charged with Bailey's murder, told an Alameda County prosecutor last month that he committed the killing on Bey's orders. Broussard said he had pulled the trigger on a high-powered rifle, firing enough shots to make sure "it ain't no coming back," and that Mackey had driven the getaway van.

Bey was angry about reporting that Bailey was doing for the Oakland Post on the bakery's internal and financial problems, Broussard said. Bey also held a grudge against Bailey for reporting the journalist supposedly did that "killed" Bey's father, who founded the bakery in 1968 and died of cancer in 2003, Broussard said.

Bey also kept a list of "people that he wanted to get rid of," Broussard told the prosecutor.

...Bey's attorney, Anne Beles, has said her client had nothing to do with Bailey's death. Bey, 23, is in jail awaiting trial on unrelated charges of kidnapping two women and torturing one of them.

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Devaughndre Broussard