Man Charged With Murder Of 'last Chance U' Coach Allegedly Confessed

The man accused of fatally shooting beloved Northern California shot coach John Beam was charged pinch execution Monday aft he allegedly confessed to nan killing, tribunal documents obtained Monday show.

Cedric Irving Jr., 27, allegedly told authorities that he utilized a firearm recovered successful his container to sprout Beam, who was gunned down Thursday astatine Laney College successful Oakland, according to a probable origin declaration revenge successful Alameda County Superior Court. Beam died of his injuries Friday.

Irving was taken into custody early Friday astatine an Oakland-area transit position aft he was allegedly seen successful surveillance video from nan scene, according to nan declaration.

Irving appears to person nary criminal history, nor had he been a student-athlete astatine Laney, Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson told reporters. She said nan weapon utilized to sprout Beam appears to person been registered to Irving.

Irving is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected execution and weapon charges Tuesday, she said. He faces a condemnation of 50 years to life successful situation if convicted.

It wasn't instantly clear if he had a lawyer to speak connected his behalf.

“He really was nan champion of Oakland,” Jones Dickson said of Beam, who was featured successful Netflix’s “Last Chance U” and coached for years astatine an Oakland precocious schoolhouse earlier he moved to Laney inferior college. "He ever had nan time. He ever had nan energy. He ever had nan bosom for nan work.”

The charismatic did not place a imaginable motive successful nan killing.

A constabulary charismatic antecedently said Irving allegedly went to nan assemblage field "for a circumstantial reason" and noted that nan 2 knew each different but did not person a adjacent relationship.

Irving played shot astatine nan precocious schoolhouse wherever Beam antecedently coached, but that was astir a decade aft his tenure ended astatine Skyline High School, his relative told NBC Bay Area.

Jones Dickson suggested that Beam's activity astir nan East Bay metropolis of astir half a cardinal whitethorn person led him to transverse paths pinch Irving.

"People who do nan activity successful nan organization — pinch anybody they travel into interaction pinch — that's coach Beam's M.O.," she said, adding: "The interaction that he would person pinch anyone astir nan schoolhouse would not beryllium unusual."

Beam, who led Laney to nan 2018 California Community College Athletic Association title, coached respective NFL players, including 1,000-yard rusher C.J. Anderson of nan Denver Broncos.

“You mean nan world to me,” Rejzohn Wright of nan New Orleans Saints said successful an Instagram station aft Beam’s decease was announced.

Jones Dickson cited Beam's shooting and a non-fatal shooting nan time earlier astatine Skyline High School arsenic nan logic for a determination to reinstitute mandatory-minimum sentences for felony and misdemeanor weapon crimes.

She said that students from Skyline were connected a section travel to Laney nan time Beam was shot.

"They had lockdowns 2 days successful a row," she said. "That's unacceptable."