An arrest has been made in Thursday’s shooting of John Beam, a mainstay of the football coaching ranks in the East Bay who was profiled in the Netflix series “Last Chance U,” at Laney College in Oakland, California, authorities said Friday.

The Oakland Police Department did not immediately elaborate on the arrest or what had prompted the shooting, in which Beam was gravely wounded.

Beam, 66, is the community college’s longtime athletic director, having retired last year from more than four decades of coaching at the junior college and high school levels.

An update on his condition was not immediately available from authorities or the college, which said the shooting occurred around noon in the athletics field house, an 18,000-square-foot complex that includes locker rooms, team meeting

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