John Beam, beloved former football coach featured in Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’, dies after shooting on California campus

Coach John Beam, the beloved California Bay Area football coach who was featured in the Netflix series “Last Chance U,” has died after being shot this week on the campus of Laney College in Oakland, the city’s police chief Floyd Mitchell said at a news conference Friday.

Police identified the suspect in Thursday’s shooting as 27-year-old Cedric Irving, said Lt. Gloria Beltran, Oakland police homicide unit commander, during the news conference.