So coach John Bean from Last Chance U fatally shot at a college. Put it up for a mask. Suspect has now been taken into custody. Legendary former football coach. [00:00:15] Coach beam of Last Chance U was killed on campus at Laney College last week, being featured in Netflix Last Chance U as a football legend in the Bay area, and had coached the sport for over 40 years before becoming solely the school's athletic director director just last year. [00:00:36] Beam was at Laney Field House when he was shot shortly after noon on Thursday, authorities said. The alleged shooter fled the scene. Police combed through surveillance footage and at 3:15 a.m. Friday, a person matching the suspect's description was spotted [00:00:56] at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station and was taken into custody. This is according to Oakland police. Police did not discuss a possible motive. The suspect has been identified as a 27 year old, Cedric Irving, [00:01:14] who reportedly 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 coach beam. Irving did not attend Laney College or work at the institution, but he went [00:01:34] to campus for for a specific reason and, quote has been known to loiter on or around the campus, police said. A gun recovered from the suspect is the same caliber as the casings and rounds recovered at the crime scene, police added. [00:01:52] Beam was hospitalized in critical condition. Died at about 10 a.m. Friday. Gloria Beltran belching of the Oakland police said, quote, Coach John Beam was a giant in Oakland and mentor thousands. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said this at a news conference on Friday. [00:02:11] Coach Beams legacy isn't measured in championships or statistics. It's measured in thousands of young people he believed in, mentored and refused to abandon, including my nephew, the mayor said. Chicago Bears quarterback Deshaun Wright paid tribute to Coach Beam [00:02:27] by taking a knee after he intercepted a touchdown pass during a game this Sunday. Well, we talked once a week easily, Wright said. He did a lot for me and my brothers. End quote. Coach Beam helped thousands of young men, including the Wright brothers, [00:02:43] over the course of his 45 year career. And I will say this, obviously, we don't know a motive yet the criminal aspect of this, but regardless of what it may be the hallmark of his character, [00:02:59] in my humble opinion, it's not his skill set, his talent, nor even his willingness to have a job in which he mentored young people. It's the fact he maintained significant relationships with them afterwards. [00:03:15] You can't buy that kind of relationship. It doesn't matter how much you love your job, or love the paycheck you receive, or the fame and and the the well wishes. [00:03:31] Maintaining relationships with individuals that you pour into is the hallmark of your heart and the leadership contained within. Alright. Michael. Thoughts here? Yeah. You know a little bit more about nation, right? Because when somebody nation and region, right are two NFL players [00:03:49] and nation got an interception yesterday Chicago Bears game and the bears beat the Vikings in Minnesota. It was big part of that. And he spoke afterwards. And it was heart wrenching, Doctor Richie to listen to him. You know, you could tell he was fighting back tears. Yeah. The Wrights lost their dad, who was killed by gunfire. [00:04:08] And he said that it was beam who came to his house and got him out of bed in the morning and said, we're going to be okay. You're going to you're going to get up and you're going to live life, and we're going to get you where you need to go. That that sort of thing. And so he was like a father figure to him. And they spoke. [00:04:25] Nahshon Wright said almost every week it sounded like at least once a week. And they spoke just before he died. So he was heartbroken. And you see the impact on somebody like Nashawn, right? That that a coach can have, and especially a kid who's been [00:04:40] through so much, it makes it doubly, triply quadruply heartbreaking. Yeah. And I say this to every coach I meet, my best friend, Brandon, is a coach. All coaches are mentors. All coaches are mentors. Period. [00:04:56] Period. All right. Okay. We'll bring you updates as they come.