It came out yesterday that a veteran Oakland Post reporter Chauncy Bailey was fatally shot by a “masked gunman” in broad daylight in Oakland. From the NBC website:

Holmgren said the 58-year-old journalist was shot multiple times in the 250 block of 14th Street near Alice Street, which is near a large post office on 13th Street and a McDonald’s restaurant at 14th and Jackson streets. Holmgren said witnesses told police that a lone gunman dressed in black clothing and black headgear approached Bailey, shot him multiple times and then fled on foot. Holmgren said he has no initial explanation for the motive of the shooting and no initial knowledge of any threats that had been made against Bailey.

and also:

Holmgren said he knew Bailey because Bailey covered Oakland City Hall as well as police matters and described Bailey as “a very assertive person who spoke his mind and addressed controversial topics.

While the info is still new, the police are saying it looks like a targeted killing. Furthermore, I noticed more this morning here:

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say more than a dozen people were detained early this morning in Oakland as the result of a yearlong police investigation. Just what exactly was being investigated has not been detailed. One of the four locations that was raided by authorities was the often-troubled Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland. (…) Also, longtime Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey was reportedly researching an investigative piece into Your Black Muslim Bakery before he was shot and killed just yesterday morning.

The late founder of the bakery, Ysuf Bey, was of some interest to the law, and his sons were identified as those who vandalized liquor stores in oakland (which I have linked to before but can’t find it at the moment). Here is the bakery’s URL: http://www.ybmb.com/ , go check it out.

Police weren’t clarifying whether the raid was part of the Bailey investigation, but we’ll see where it goes.