Legendary Oakland football coach John Beam died Friday after being shot on the campus of Laney College Thursday afternoon. Beam was a long-standing football coach at the school who retired last year.

Former American football coach John Beam, who was featured in Netflix series Last Chance U, has died after being shot.

“For 40 years, he has impacted more lives of young people in the city of Oakland than anybody else,” Lou Richie, who attended Bishop O’Dowd High School in the 1980s, when Beam coached at Skyline, told...