OAKLAND — The man suspected of killing Laney College’s legendary football coach John Beam has just been charged with enough crimes to put him in prison for at least 50 years to life, court records show.

Cedric Irving Jr., 27, was charged with murder and an enhancement alleging he personally discharged a firearm, along with additional enhancements for allegedly targeting a “vulnerable” victim and causing great bodily harm, court records show. Irving, a Skyline High graduate, was arrested just hours after he killed Beam on the college campus where Irving was known to loiter, according to police.

Irving allegedly shot Beam, 66, shortly before noon Thursday, inside Laney’s Field House, an athletic facility housing the college’s administrative offices and other facilities near Fifth Avenue an

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