Son of Black Muslim leader shot dead
- Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
(10-26) 10:30 PDT OAKLAND -- The son of a well-known Black Muslim leader was shot and killed last night as he filled his car's tank at a gas station in North Oakland.
Antar Bey, 24, was shot at the Union 76 gas station at 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way just after 7:30 p.m. as he gassed up his black BMW 745, Oakland police said. He was gunned down as he stepped away from the car and spoke on his cell phone, police said.
Bey is the son and appointed successor of the late Yusuf Bey, who died of cancer in 2003. Police Lt. Lawrence Green said the slaying was either an attempted carjacking or an assassination-style "hit."
Investigators have declined to discuss what might have been a motive for the slaying. But officers have in the past have speculated that there is a power struggle going on within the religious organization, which also runs several businesses, including Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue.
Police said an unidentified gunman fired shots at Antar Bey twice during the past several weeks without injuring him.
Antar Bey's slaying is the second unsolved slaying of a senior member of the group since the elder Bey died.
On July 20, a dog walker found the badly decomposed body of Waajid Aljawwaad, 51, in a shallow grave near a fire trail in King Estates Park in East Oakland, police said. Investigators said it appeared he was killed elsewhere and his body was dumped there. Aljawwaad, 51, was reported missing Feb. 29, 2004, one day after he last spoke with family members.
Aljawwaad, who in some records added Bey to his surname, was the president and chief executive officer of Your Black Muslim Bakery, the best known of the businesses affiliated with the religious group.
John Bey, another son of Yusuf Bey, was seriously wounded in June when a gunman ambushed him while he was leaving his home about 6:30 a.m. in the 1700 block of Indian Way in the Montclair District. John Bey was a senior manager with Universal Distributors Security, one of companies affiliated with the local Black Muslim organization. Police said they had not motive for the attempt on John Bey's life.
E-mail Jim Zamora at jzamora@sfchronicle.com.
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Good for you, I didn't read all the reports and so didn't see the finer details, and this site would not have worked for me.
Something is going on in this group.
Could it be that al_Qaeda wants to take over and run it as a money maker?
It looks as tho it had a few good points going for it at one time, teaching and making money, by selling a good product.