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Former Your Black Muslim Bakery Owner Sentenced to Three Life Terms

Former ‘Your Black Muslim Bakery’ Owner Sentenced to Three Life Terms

The former leader, Yusuf  Bey IV of a once-influential Oakland community group of Black Muslims  was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for ordering the killing of three men, including a journalist, Chauncey Bailey who was working on a story about the financial troubles of the organization.

Reports stated this:

Despite his conviction in June, Bey, the former head of Your Black Muslim Bakery, continued to assert his innocence in a statement read by his attorney Gene Peretti.

Oakland Editor Chauncey Bailey Finally Receives Justice with Verdict

Oakland Editor Chauncey Bailey Finally Receives Justice with Verdict

Story from The Chauncey Bailey Project

OAKLAND — Nearly four years after Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was gunned down on his morning walk to work, a jury convicted the former leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery of murder for ordering the journalist’s assassination.

Yusuf Bey IV — who a prosecutor said terrorized Oakland — will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for sending two followers to kill Bailey after learning the journalist was writing a story about financial problems and inner strife at the bakery.

D.C. Sniper Will Be Executed Next Month

john_allen_muhammad0009It seems like it was just yesterday when John Allen Muhammad was convicted of killing Dean Harold Meyers, one of several victims in a series of sniper-style shootings that terrorized the Washington area in October 2002.  During a three-week period, he and his young sidekick, Lee Boyd Malvo, shot 13 people, murdering 10 of them. Since then, they both have been also accused of shootings in other various states.  It has been said Muhammad was the one who initiated the shooting spree and Malvo was nothing but a follower who did whatever John Muhammad asked him to do.