A Bay Area journalist was slain for his work in 2007. His killer was just released.

The convicted killer of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey was released from prison last week, nearly 18 years after a shocking attack on a working journalist.

Devaughndre Broussard shot Bailey on Aug. 2, 2007, later saying that he was ordered to do so by Yusuf Bey IV, an activist and religious leader.Broussardsaid Bey ordered the killing to stop Bailey from writing a story about the now-shuttered Your Black Muslim Bakery. Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post, was 57. He was the first American journalist killed over a domestic story since 1976, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Broussard was paroled June 5, according to California Correctional Health Care Services. As a condition of his release, he must stay within 70 miles of San Luis Obispo, a department representativetold SFGATE. Broussard’s release was first reported by the Chauncey Bailey Project, a group that formed to finish the slain journalist’s work.

Broussard was sentenced in 2011 after testifying against Bey, the Bailey Project reported. Bailey was investigating the bakery chain, which ended up being the center of a polygamist cult rife with allegations of sexual assault and abuse detailed in “Killing the Messenger” by Thomas Peele…

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