Calif man found guilty in murder of journalist

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A former Oakland community group leader has been found guilty of ordering the murders of a journalist and two other men.

Jurors today found former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and co-defendant Antoine Mackey guilty of murder in the shooting death of 57-year-old Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey in August 2007.

Prosecutors argued that Bey felt so desperate to protect the legacy of the bakery that promoted self-empowerment for decades that he ordered Bailey killed as he worked on a story about the organization’s troubled finances.

Bey also was convicted in the July 2007 killings of 31-year-old Odell Roberson Jr. and 36-year-old Michael Wills. Mackey was convicted of killing Wills, but the jury deadlocked on murder charges against him in the death of Roberson.