Shooting at Laney College leaves John Beam, legendary football coach, wounded

A taking pictures at Laney Faculty right now left a senior member of the varsity’s athletic program employees injured and hospitalized, courses canceled, dozens of cops on the scene and a suspect at giant. Peralta Neighborhood Faculty District officers confirmed to KTVU that the person who was shot was John Beam, the legendary Oakland soccer coach.

In keeping with OPD, the taking pictures occurred simply earlier than midday on the campus of Oakland Neighborhood Faculty. The suspected shooter fled on foot and has not but been positioned. Police recognized the suspect as a person sporting a black hoodie.

OPD officers responded to the campus as if it was an lively taking pictures and secured the varsity grounds. The FBI additionally responded to campus, and an company spokesperson instructed The Oaklandside that the company is ready to offer help to OPD.

A number of violence interrupters working with Oakland’s Division of Violence Prevention additionally got here to the varsity to attempt to defuse any tensions.

In an e-mail to Peralta Neighborhood Faculty District employees and college students, Johnson mentioned solely that the sufferer was a “senior member of our athletic employees.” However several media reports recognized the sufferer as Beam, the Laney Faculty athletic director and former soccer coach.

“The person was instantly transported to a neighborhood hospital, and we’re holding him – and his family members – in our hearts throughout this extremely tough time,” Johnson wrote. “Out of respect for his or her privateness, we’re not releasing their names at the moment.”

In keeping with an e-mail from the Oakland Unified College District, college students from 10 center colleges have been on a subject journey to Laney on the time of the taking pictures and subsequent lockdown.

“As quickly as they realized of the closure, OUSD counselors moved our college students to a protected location the place they might shelter in place,” the e-mail mentioned. “The closure lasted roughly 45 minutes earlier than the Oakland Police Division licensed it.”

College students from Skyline Excessive College have been amongst these current throughout the Laney lockdown, in response to the district. The taking pictures comes the day after a scholar was shot at Skyline, placing the highschool on lockdown. Police mentioned the coed was injured and handled at a hospital, however the accidents weren’t life-threatening. Two college students have been arrested and two weapons have been seized.

Beam coached soccer at Skyline Excessive College for a number of years starting in 1982. Throughout his tenure as head coach starting in 1987, the staff gained 15 league championships and remained undefeated within the league all through the last decade of the Nineties. He grew to become head soccer coach at Laney in 2012 and led the staff to 2 league titles in that position.

Beam and his Laney Faculty soccer staff have been featured within the fifth season of the collection Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’ a documentary concerning the Eagles’ struggles and successes throughout their 2019 season.

Mayor Barbara Lee issued the next assertion: “I’m heartbroken by right now’s taking pictures at Laney Faculty – the second taking pictures on an Oakland campus in a single week. OPD is investigating this incident. We should proceed to confront the continued gun violence disaster that’s robbing our neighborhood of security and stealing its future. It is a second for our neighborhood to come back collectively and tackle this violence with urgency.”

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