A coach featured on the Netflix series “Last Chance U” was shot in a campus shooting.

According to the Associated Press, John Beam was shot just before noon at Laney College in Oakland on Thursday. He was taken to the hospital and his condition was unknown, but he was shot in the head, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Beam, the current athletic director and former head coach of the Laney football team, was featured in the 2020 season of the popular Netflix documentary series that follows athletes at junior colleges looking to turn their lives around after past mistakes.

Beam has been a fixture in the Bay Area for more than 40 years.

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said she was “heartbroken” by “the second shooting on an Oakland campus in one week.”

“My thoughts are with Coach John

See Full Page