Overview
- John Beam, 66, was shot Thursday inside the Laney College fieldhouse and died Friday morning at Highland Hospital.
- Oakland police arrested 27-year-old Cedric Irving Jr. around 3:15 a.m. Friday at the San Leandro BART station after tracking him across the city on video.
- Investigators describe the encounter as a targeted attack; Irving and Beam were acquainted but not close, no motive has been released, and police say it was not a robbery.
- A campus lockdown lifted Thursday after officers cleared buildings; Laney later reopened with counseling services and a memorial growing outside the fieldhouse.
- Tributes poured in from athletes and civic leaders, with figures such as Steph Curry and Steve Kerr honoring Beam’s decades of mentorship highlighted on Netflix’s Last Chance U.