Outspoken Calif. Editor Shot to Death

[Ghost in the Machine]

Outspoken Calif. Editor Shot to Death
Published: 8/3/07, 2:05 AM EDT
By MICHELLE LOCKE
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police suspect was a deliberate hit.

Chauncey Bailey, 57, was killed around 7:30 a.m., Oakland Police spokesman Roland Holmgren said. Witnesses told police a man wearing a mask shot Bailey multiple times and then fled.

Police had no motive for the killing but said it did not appear to be random. Holmgren said investigators would look into any possible connections with Bailey's work.

"All of those possibilities will have to be definitely explored and explored thoroughly," Holmgren said.

"I've spoken with him several times," he added. "I know him as being a somewhat outspoken type individual, assertive in his journalistic approach when trying to get at matters at hand."

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[Breeze54]

1. Where's Cheney?

:shrug:

That totally sucks!! Gheesh!

Sounds like a planned hit.

[melody]

2. His girlfriend had a history of stalking him and other weird behavior n/t

[LibertyorDeath]

3. This story gives me the creeps

I hope they catch the POS that did this.....

[Selatius]

4. If it's political violence, then I fear that it is a foretaste of things to come.

Things far worse than we would be bothered to imagine.

[RufusTFirefly]

5. Police raid Muslim bakery that was written about by slain Oakland editor

Police raid Muslim bakery that was written about by slain Oakland editor
From the Associated Press
10:22 AM PDT, August 3, 2007

OAKLAND -- Police conducted a series of raids early today, including one at a Black Muslim-run bakery that was the subject of coverage by a journalist slain in a brazen shooting a day earlier.

Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said 19 people were detained in the pre-dawn raids at Your Black Muslim Bakery and three other locations, which he called part of a yearlong investigation into several violent crimes, including "murder, robbery and kidnapping." He did not identify the other locations.

He would not say whether the raids were related to the shooting of journalist Chauncey Bailey, who was killed near the Alameda County courthouse in downtown Oakland Thursday.

L.A. Times