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Secret video raises questions about bakery leader's role in Bailey killing
By Thomas Peele, Bob Butler, Mary Fricker and Josh Richman
THE CHAUNCEY BAILEY PROJECT
Article Created: 06/18/2008 10:20:17 PM PDT

Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV kept the gun used to kill journalist Chauncey Bailey in his closet after the attack and bragged of playing "hella dumb" when investigators asked him about the shooting, according to a secretly recorded police video.

He describes Bailey's shooting in detail on the video, then, laughing, he denies he was there, and boasts that his friendship with the case's lead detective protected him from charges.

Bey IV has not been arrested in Bailey's Aug. 2 death; Devaughndre Broussard, a then-19-year-old bakery handyman, has been charged in the killing. In an interview last week at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, where he is being held on unrelated kidnapping and torture charges, Bey IV, 22, denied any role in the killing.

The video and scores of other documents and police recordings obtained by the Chauncey Bailey Project raise questions about Bey IV's possible role in a conspiracy to kill Bailey, who was working on a story about the financially troubled bakery.