Tributes are pouring in for revered and legendary Oakland football coach John Beam.

Everyone from athletes to community members are honoring beam, who was shot and died yesterday.

The 66-year-old coach molded football players for 45 years, first at skyline high school, then at Laney College.

“I know coach John Beam and I’m really deeply saddened by his tragic death,” said Pastor Michael Wallace, with the Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

On Saturday, an event planned months ago took on more importance after Beam’s death and a shooting at Skyline High School on Tuesday.

The event is a gun buyback where the guns are made into garden tools.

“It’s absolutely critical to have this in our city of Oakland even though gun violence is down in the city of Oakland, in the last three days four

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