REACTIONS HAVE POURED IN from around the Bay Area and the sports world following the death of Laney College athletic director and former football coach John Beam on Friday after he was shot at the Oakland campus a day earlier.
Beam, whose tenure at Laney College was featured on the Netflix documentary “Last Chance U” in 2020 and included a state championship, was shot at the Laney Fieldhouse on East Eighth Street shortly before noon Thursday. He was taken to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries at about 10 a.m. Friday, Oakland police said.
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