John Beam , the Laney College athletic director featured on Netflix ‘s Last Chance U , has died after being shot on campus, Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell announced Friday.

The announcement of Beam’s death comes one day following the shooting. A suspect has been arrested.

“This was a very targeted incident,” Assistant Chief James Beere said during a news conference Friday according to The Associated Press. Beere added that the suspect and Beam knew each other and while they weren’t close, the coach was “open to helping everybody in our community.”

Beere revealed that the suspect played football at Skyline High School in Oakland, where Beam had previously worked during the 1980s and ’90s, but he was not employed at Skyline when the suspect was a student. Beere added that th

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