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| AK-47 linked to Black Muslim bakery killed 2 men, Oakland cops say |
| 2007-10-15 |
| Odell Roberson Jr., a transient who kept to himself, was shot and killed on a July evening as he walked the streets of North Oakland. Four nights later and a few blocks away, Michael John Wills Jr., a gregarious sous chef, was shot to death a few minutes after he left his home. The attacks initially seemed unconnected, just two more killings in a city plagued by street homicides. But Oakland police soon found that the same AK-47 assault rifle was used to kill both men. That weapon, they learned, also had been fired seven months before in an attack associated with members of Your Black Muslim Bakery, according to documents in the case. Oakland investigators were already preparing to search the bakery for evidence in the kidnapping and torture of a mother and daughter in May. The AK-47 connection to the two homicides added a new urgency to their efforts - they said they feared bakery members were trying to "cleanse" the area around their San Pablo Avenue headquarters of undesirables. But as investigators prepared to raid the bakery, word spread within the group that Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey was working on a story about its troubles. On Aug. 2, three days after police obtained search warrants for the bakery, Bailey was gunned down as he walked to his office. The next day, police stormed the bakery and arrested its leader and two members of his entourage in the kidnap-torture case. They also arrested a bakery handyman in Bailey's killing. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 I bet they find more connections |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-10-15 20:35 |
| #2 used the AK-47 to shoot up a car owned by a man who once had dated the wife of Yusuf Bey IV, who became CEO of the bakery after Antar Bey was killed. The man, whose name has not been made public, was not injured. I small quagmire/FMS opportunities! When are we ever going to stop openly interferring in the |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-10-15 16:05 |
| #1 Some of the only good news coming out of this is that a coalition of local journalists have banded together and vowed to carry on with all of the investigations that Chauncey Bailey was conducting at the time of his murder. The Black Muslim Bakery has been a blight on Oakland for decades. Its closure and the organization's dismantling is long, long overdue. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-15 13:55 |