John Beam, a legendary football coach featured on Netflix's "Last Chance U" and the Laney College athletic director, has died, one day after being shot on the Oakland, California campus , police announced.

At a news conference on Friday, Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell said that Beam died Friday morning. He was 66.

"We are devastated that John Beam, our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, coach, mentor and friend, has passed," Beam's family said in a statement that was read at the briefing.

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Piedmont police chief Frederick Shavies, who knew Beam since he was in 8th grade, said at the news conference, "John was so much more than a coach. He was a father figure to thousands of not only men, but young women, in our c

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