OAKLAND, Calif. -- An unusual collaboration of a wide range of Bay Area news organizations, including KTVU Channel 2 News, has uncovered what some legal experts say has the effect of a police cover-up in the assassination of a Bay Area journalist last year.

The Chauncey Bailey Project has unearthed internal police documents showing key evidence in the killing of Bay Area journalist Chauncey Bailey has been ignored by the Oakland Police Department. The evidence indicates the slaying was masterminded by a young man who has so far escaped any charges related to the murder.

Moreover, documents suggest that Oakland police who have ignored the evidence are accused internally by other officers of possibly interfering in other criminal investigations by the same 22-year-old man, Yusef Bey IV, once head of the notorious but now disbanded “Your Black Muslim Bakery.”

The documents obtained by the Chauncey Bailey Project include a previously undisclosed police report tracking the movement of Bey’s car, which shows the automobile went to Bailey’s home in the predawn hours before the killing, then to the actual site of the execution very shortly after Bailey died on a street just blocks from downtown Oakland.

What’s more, the documents show Oakland Police also has had logs for Bey’s mobile phone, logs indicating he was on the phone to people suspected in the killing just moments after the murder.

That evidence, along with secret police surveillance tape uncovered by the Chauncey Bailey project earlier this year showing Bey mimicking the killing and telling associates he had driven by the death scene, are also absent from the assassination report.

Oakland police, which at first answered routine questions about the investigation last year, have since censured all members of the department from talking about the assassination.

“It’s not like there’s an active cover-up on the part of the Oakland Police Department,” said Golden Gate University Law Professor Peter Keane. “But there’s the effect of a cover-up.”

Keane is one of a half dozen legal experts coast-to-coast who say they are troubled by the Oakland investigation.

The Chauncey Bailey Project has also learned that an independent internal affairs investigation into the case and a second independent investigation by the Alameda County District Attorney’s office have been launched.