John Beam, a soccer coach featured on Netflix’s “Final Probability U” and the Laney School athletic director, has died, someday after being shot on the Oakland, California, campus, police introduced.
At a information convention on Friday, Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell stated that Beam died Friday morning. He was 66.
“We’re devastated that John Beam, our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, coach, mentor and pal, has handed,” Beam’s household stated in an announcement that was learn on the briefing.
Piedmont Police Chief Frederick Shavies, who knew Beam since he was in eighth grade, stated on the information convention, “John was a lot greater than a coach. He was a father determine to hundreds of not solely males, however younger girls, in our group.”
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The announcement was made hours after police stated an arrest had been made in reference to the taking pictures. A legislation enforcement supply confirmed to CBS Information Bay Space that the suspect has been recognized as 27-year-old Cedric Irving Jr.
Police stated Irving was situated by Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies on the San Leandro BART station round 3:15 a.m. on Friday. Assistant Police Chief James Beere stated at a press convention Friday {that a} suspect weapon, a privately-manufactured “ghost gun” was recovered, and confirmed the suspect knew Beam however didn’t have a relationship.
“This was a really focused incident,” Beere advised reporters with out elaborating. “And I’ll say that Coach Beam, though they didn’t have an in depth relationship, was open to serving to everyone in our group. And this isn’t unusual for him to have a relationship with somebody that he would assume wants assist. On this case, I can simply inform you that the person who was arrested went to the campus for a particular cause.”
Beere additionally stated the suspect, who was not a Laney scholar, was identified to have loitered on or across the campus. Beere added that the suspect as soon as performed highschool soccer within the metropolis of Oakland, however didn’t play for a crew that Beam coached.
Beam was the previous head soccer coach for the Laney School Eagles and gained nationwide recognition within the Netflix docuseries “Final Probability U.” The fifth season of the sequence adopted the Eagles throughout the 2019 season, and highlighted Beam’s lifelong affect on generations of younger soccer gamers. Earlier than coming to Laney School, Beam was the longtime head soccer coach for Oakland’s Skyline Excessive College, main the Titans to fifteen league championships, 11 part championships, and 4 undefeated seasons.
“Coach Beam’s legacy is not measured in championships or statistics, despite the fact that they’re nice. It is measured within the hundreds of younger folks he believed in, mentored and refused to desert, together with my nephew whereas at Skyline Excessive College,” Mayor Barbara Lee stated Friday. “He gave Oakland’s youth their finest likelihood, and he by no means stopped preventing for them.”
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