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Newspaper Editor's Murder Photo Essay

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• Oakland (Calif.) police officers investigate the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot to death. Bailey, the outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post, who formerly worked for The Detroit News, was shot to death near a downtown Oakland courthouse in what police believe was a deliberate hit. Bailey had been a reporter for The Oakland Tribune before moving to the Post in June.
• Paul Cobb, right, publisher of the Oakland Post, grieves with an unidentified person at the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot dead by an unknown assailant at the corner of 14th and Alice streets in Oakland, Calif.
• Oakland Post publisher Paul Cobb, right, waits at the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot dead by an unknown assailant at the corner of 14th and Alice streets in Oakland, Calif.
• Former Oakland Tribune reporter Chauncey Bailey is seen in this undated photo. Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.
• Chief of Police, Wayne Tucker, left, talks to Oakland Police officers at the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot dead by an unknown assailant at the corner of 14th and Alice streets in Oakland, Calif.
• Oakland police Officers investigate the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot dead by an unknown assailant at the corner of 14th and Alice streets in Oakland, Calif.