The hitman who murdered former Detroit News reporter Chauncey Bailey in 2007 to silence his work as the top editor at the Oakland Post in Oakland, California, has been paroled. Bailey, 57, had been investigating an organization called Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland at the time of his murder.
Devaughndre Broussard was 19 when he walked up to Bailey in downtown Oakland, and fatally shot him three times with a shotgun. Broussard, who was serving a 25-year sentence, was released on June 5 after the system calculated in his good time, according to the Chauncey Bailey Project website.
Bailey was a colorful character who worked for The Detroit News from 1982 to 1992. He eventually returned to his hometown of Oakland, Calif., where he became editor in 2007 of the Oakland Post, the largest African-American weekly newspaper in Northern California…