OAKLAND, Calif. -- Legendary former football coach John Beam died on Friday morning after he was shot on the Laney College campus in Oakland, California, on Thursday, the Oakland Police Department said, as authorities announced a suspect's arrest.
Beam, featured in Netflix's "Last Chance U," is a football legend in the Bay Area and had coached the sport for over 40 years before becoming solely the school's athletic director last year.
Police combed through surveillance footage, and at 3:15 a.m. Friday, a person matching the suspect's description was spotted at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station and was taken into custody, Oakland police said.
The suspect -- 27-year-old Cedric Irving -- did know the coach, but "they did not have a relationship," police said. Irving played high school football in the Bay Area, but never played for Beam.
Irving didn't attend Laney College or work at the college, but he went to campus "for a specific reason" and "has been known to loiter on or around the campus," police said.
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