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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 27-year-old antheral was charged Monday with execution successful the shooting decease of celebrated erstwhile shot manager John Beam, who died Friday aft being changeable successful the caput connected the inferior assemblage field successful Oakland wherever helium worked.
Cedric Irving faces 50 years to beingness if convicted, said Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson astatine a Monday property conference. Irving besides faces enhancement charges alleging helium personally fired a weapon that caused large bodily wounded and that the unfortunate was peculiarly vulnerable, perchance owed to age, according to the charging complaint.
Beam, 66, was a elephantine successful the section community, a begetter fig who forged heavy relationships with his players portion fielding a squad that regularly competed for championships. The Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U” focused connected Beam and the Laney Eagles successful its 2020 season. He’d astir precocious been serving arsenic the school’s diversion manager aft retiring from coaching past year.
“He truly is the champion of Oakland — was the champion of Oakland,” Jones Dickson said. "His tone is inactive here.”
The territory lawyer said Irving had nary transgression record. He is being held without bail, and is scheduled to beryllium arraigned Tuesday. The Alameda County Public Defender’s Office said it has not been appointed to correspond Irving and declined comment.
Back-to-back shootings astatine 2 schools past week person roiled Oakland, a metropolis of astir 400,000 crossed the bay from San Francisco. On Wednesday, a pupil was changeable astatine Oakland’s Skyline High School. The pupil is successful unchangeable information and 2 juveniles were successful custody.
Jones Dickson said Skyline students were connected a tract travel astatine Laney College and had to endure done 2 lockdowns successful the aforesaid week. She said it was clip to bring accountability into the statement implicit weapon unit due to the fact that excessively galore young radical are being wounded by casual entree to firearms.
“That’s unacceptable that we person children successful our assemblage who present this is the norm. Two days successful a enactment that they’re locked down for weapon unit connected a campus. I’m not bully with that,” she said.
Officers arrived astatine Laney College earlier noon Thursday to find Beam changeable successful the caput astatine the athletics tract house. He was treated astatine a hospital, but died the pursuing time from his injuries.
Irving was arrested astatine a commuter obstruction presumption conscionable aft 3 a.m. Friday. He was carrying the firearm utilized to sprout Beam, and helium admitted to carrying retired the shooting, according to the probable origin document.
Oakland Assistant Chief James Beere said the fishy went connected field for a “specific reason” but did not elaborate. “This was a precise targeted incident,” helium said astatine a Friday quality conference.
Beere did not accidental however the 2 men knew each different but said the Irving was known to bent astir the Laney campus. Irving's member told the San Francisco Chronicle that Irving had mislaid his occupation arsenic a information defender aft an altercation and was facing eviction astatine home.
Beam joined Laney College successful 2004 arsenic a moving backs manager and became caput manager successful 2012, winning 2 league titles. According to his biography connected the college’s website, astatine slightest 20 of his players went connected to the NFL.
Beam antecedently worked astatine Skyline High School, wherever Irving had played shot but aft Beam had near for different job.
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