John Beam, a mainstay of the football coaching ranks in the East Bay who was profiled in the Netflix series “Last Chance U,” died Friday, one day after being targeted in a shooting at Laney College in Oakland, California, authorities said.

The Oakland Police Department on Friday identified the gunman as Cedric Irving Jr., 27. Authorities said he was arrested early Friday at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Leandro, California.

It was not immediately clear what had prompted the shooting, but law enforcement officials said at a news conference Friday that it had been a targeted attack and that the two men knew each other.

Investigators said they recovered a gun that was the same caliber as the shell casings and live rounds that were taken into evidence at the crime scene.

Beam, 66

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