An Oakland, Calif., man was charged with homicide Monday for the “focused” assassination of legendary Laney School soccer coach John Beam, who he allegedly shot as a result of he believed the star of Netflix’s “Final Probability U” was utilizing “witchcraft” on him, in keeping with a report.
Alameda County prosecutors introduced prices in opposition to Cedric Irving Jr., 27, on Monday afternoon after Beam, the athletics director at Laney School, was shot within the head on campus Thursday and died the following morning.
Police used surveillance digital camera footage to ID Irving because the shooter and at last arrested him on Friday.
He had a firearm in his bag and confessed to each the homicide and proudly owning the gun, in keeping with an affidavit obtained by NBC Bay Space.
Irving, who performed soccer in highschool, had a “fixation” on Beam and allegedly confessed to killing the coach as a result of he believed Beam had used black magic on him and others, police sources advised The San Francisco Chronicle.
He faces one cost of homicide plus a separate cost for utilizing a gun to allegedly kill the 66-year-old. The fees every carry a most sentence of 25 years to life and he will likely be arraigned Tuesday.
Irving had performed for Skyline Excessive Faculty, the place Beam had coached for 22 years. He by no means performed underneath Beam, however the pair knew one another and Irving was recognized to “loiter” across the Laney School campus, in keeping with James Beere, assistant chief of the Oakland Police Division.
Beere described the capturing as a “very focused incident.”
“The Peralta neighborhood is devastated by his capturing,” Laney Chancellor Tammeil Gilkerson wrote in a message to staff, in keeping with CNN. “We’re surprised and heartbroken that such violence has touched our campus and one of the crucial revered and beloved members of our Laney, Peralta, and Oakland neighborhood.”
Beam joined Laney’s soccer teaching employees in 2004 and was promoted to go coach in 2012. He was featured within the Netflix collection in 2020.
Twenty of his former gamers have gone on to play within the NFL.
“My ideas are with Coach John Beam and his family members,” Oakland mayor Barbara Lee wrote in an X submit early Friday morning. “We’re praying for him. Coach Beam is a big in Oakland — a mentor, an educator, and a lifeline for hundreds of younger individuals. For over 40 years, he has formed leaders on and off the sphere, and our neighborhood is shaken alongside his household.
“That is the second capturing on an Oakland campus in two days, and it’s devastating. Faculties ought to be the most secure areas in our metropolis. We want weapons off our streets now. We’re standing collectively, praying for Coach Beam and his family members.”
