Coach featured in Netflix’s Last Chance U injured in Oakland campus shooting

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John Beam, director of athletics at Laney College, in critical condition as police search for suspect

An American football coach who starred in the Netflix documentary Last Chance U, about struggling college teams, is in critical condition after being shot on campus, authorities in California said.

John Beam, director of athletics at Oakland’s Laney College, was hurt in a Thursday lunchtime incident at the school’s field house, its downtown sports training complex.

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