Dec 14, 2007 12:10 pm US/Pacific
Bey Killer Gets Life Sentence With No Parole
OAKLAND (CBS 5 / BCN) ―
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Your Black Muslim Bakery, Oakland.
AP
Alfonza Phillips was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the Oct. 25, 2005, shooting death of former Your
Black Muslim Bakery chief executive Antar Bey at an Oakland gas station.
Phillips, 22, was convicted Nov. 19 of first-degree murder, the special circumstance of committing a murder during an attempted carjacking, attempted carjacking, using a firearm and discharging a firearm causing death.
A female friend or relative of Phillips cried when Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon Rolefson sentenced Phillips, but some of Bey's 11 family members who attended today's hearing applauded softly.
Outside court, Phillips' friend or relative got into a verbal confrontation with Bey's family and sheriff's deputies had to break it up.
Jurors, who deliberated for less than two full days, rejected defense lawyer Leonard Ulfelder's theory that Bey's death was due to an ongoing power struggle at the bakery and accepted prosecutor Colleen McMahon's theory that the incident was "a classic example of a carjacking gone bad."
Bey, 23, was shot to death at the Union 76 gas station at 55th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 25, 2005.
In her closing argument, McMahon told jurors that Ulfelder's claim that Bey's death was a well-planned assassination was "speculation" and was
"completely unsupported by any of the facts you heard in this trial."
McMahon said she believes Phillips targeted Bey because he wanted
to steal Bey's $75,000 BMW 745 sedan both because he wanted to have the car and because he wanted to give its "very expensive" 22-inch rims to his then-girlfriend, U.S. Postal Service employee Althea Foy, now 24.
McMahon said to jurors, "This incident was a hit? If that were the
case, the shooter would have made darn sure that he (Bey) was dead and shot him multiple times."
Bey's mother, Daulet Bey, in a statement read in court today by
her daughter, Jannah Bey, said to Phillips that the shooting incident caused "life-altering damage to me and Antar's siblings and the black community of Oakland."
Daulet Bey said the murder of her son, who would have celebrated
his 26th birthday Thursday, "was the most trying time of my life."
Bey told Phillips that he now must live in "a hell of your own
making" and he should "beg God for mercy and forgiveness."
Antar Bey took control of Your Black Muslim Bakery after his
predecessor, Waajid Aljawwaad Bey, disappeared in 2004. Waajid Aljawwaad Bey's body was found in a shallow grave in East Oakland in July 2005 but the crime has never been solved.
In June 2005, another family leader, John Bey, survived an
apparent assassination attempt in which he was shot at several times in his neighborhood in Oakland's Montclair District. That crime also hasn't been solved.
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