Chauncey Bailey

Year: 2007

Nationality: USA

Killed by: Criminal Group

Location: Oakland, USA

Press organization: Oakland Post

What's Chauncey Bailey's story?

A masked gunman dressed in black clothes approached Bailey, editor-in-chief of the Oakland Post and four other weeklies, on a street in downtown Oakland, Calif., as the journalist was on his way to work about 7:30 a.m. The assailant shot Bailey multiple times at close range before fleeing on foot, Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren told CPJ. Bailey was pronounced dead at the scene.

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