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Admits to Editor’s killing

OAKLAND (California): A teenage handyman for a Black Muslim splinter group has confessed and will be charged with murder in the shooting death of an Oakland journalist who was investigating the group’s finances, the assistant police chief said on Monday. Devaughndre Broussard (19), was one of seven persons arrested in raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery and nearby houses. He is expected to be charged this week in the death of Chauncey Bailey, an Oakland Post Editor , Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan said. Bailey (57), was a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune before becoming Editor of the Post, a weekly newspaper geared toward the black community, earlier this year. W itnesses said he was ambushed in downtown Oakland by a man wearing a mask who shot Bailey multiple times. — AP

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