When journalist Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr. was murdered Aug. 2, questions arose as to who could have committed such an act, in broad daylight, and what could have motivated the killing. Shortly after the slaying, police arrested Your Black Muslim Bakery handyman Devaughndre Broussard, 19, and charged him with the crime. But deep questions remain, starting with who really called the shots in the killing - and what they were trying to cover up.
In an effort to pick up where Bailey left off, a rare coalition of media rivals and scholastic colleagues - more than two dozen reporters, photographers, and editors from print, broadcast, and electronic media - have formed the Chauncey Bailey Project, an investigative team that will continue and expand on the reporting Bailey was pursuing at the time of his death. [more]
Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV kept the gun used to kill journalist Chauncey Bailey in his closet after the attack and later bragged of playing "hella dumb" when investigators asked him about the shooting, Bey IV said in a secretly recorded police video.
By Thomas Peele, Bob Butler, Mary Fricker, and Josh Richman, The Chauncey Bailey Project
Santa Barbara police reopen 40-year-old homicide case with 'similarities' to Chauncey Bailey slaying
By Bob Butler, Thomas Peele, The Chauncey Bailey Project
One man cracked the case against the late Bakery leader
By Mary Fricker
Women who claimed to be victims of Yusuf Bey's sexual abuse, or their families, said they made at least 10 complaints that were ignored by authorities.
By Mary Fricker
Bakery associate received public matching funds but didn't document spending
By Cecily Burt and G.W. Schulz
For audio, video, and more stories from the project, please visit www.chaunceybaileyproject.org
