The individual accused of taking the life of renowned college football coach John Beam is now facing a potential sentence of at least 50 years following multiple criminal charges, according to recent reports.

Authorities have detained 27-year-old Cedric Irving Jr. after he allegedly shot and killed the 66-year-old athletic director on the Laney College campus in Oakland early on Friday morning.

As his arraignment approaches, Mercury News reports that Irving has been charged with murder, with added allegations that he personally fired the weapon. Additional charges suggest he targeted a ‘vulnerable’ victim and inflicted significant bodily harm.

Officials have yet to disclose any possible motive behind the shooting. Irving remains in custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without the option of bail, and he is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Tuesday.

John Beam, who gained widespread recognition from Netflix’s 2020 college football docuseries ‘Last Chance U,’ was reportedly shot in the head by Irving Jr. near the fieldhouse at Laney College, where he served as the athletic director, on Thursday.

He was rushed to hospital immediately but later succumbed to his injuries. Irving Jr. was taken into custody without any altercation at around 3am on Friday morning after being apprehended at San Leandro BART station.

The man accused of killing legendary coach John Beam (pictured) is facing 50 years in prison 

Cedric Irving Jr. (pictured), 27, allegedly shot and killed Beam at Laney College last week

Police credited technology, specifically cameras at the college campus, private residences and on public transit, with helping arrest Irving Jr. They also confirmed that a gun has been recovered.

Oakland Assistant Chief James Beere revealed Friday that Irving Jr. was known to loiter around Laney’s campus. He added that Irving Jr. was on campus for a ‘specific reason’ but did not elaborate further. ‘This was a very targeted incident,’ he said.

Irving Jr. played football at Skyline High School, where Beam once worked, but not at the same time the coach was employed there. He played tight end for the school’s varsity team in 2016 and 2017.

Irving Jr.’s brother, Samuael, broke his silence on the harrowing events last Friday and said he was ‘shocked’ and heartbroken.

‘Hearing about my brother’s arrest shocked me a lot,’ Samuael told NBC Bay Area.

‘It made me tear up. I couldn’t believe he would have done such a thing like this. I wish he would have just came to his family for help or advice or just anything because we’re family.’

Samuael also told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was stunned to learn of the arrest and that his brother excelled academically and athletically in high school, where he ran track and played football.

Irving Jr. recently lost his job as a security guard after an altercation, his brother said, and then was evicted from his apartment. ‘I hope it isn’t him,’ Samuael said quietly. 

Beam, who starred in 2020 Netflix series ‘Last Chance U’, was the school’s athletic director

The college football icon (pictured with wife Cindi) died at the age of 66 on Friday morning

Floral tributes began to appear at Laney College on Friday as locals paid their respects

‘The Cedric I knew wasn’t capable of murder – but the way things had been going, I honestly don’t know.’

Samuael also revealed he was the one who told his parents of their son’s arrest and they were just as shocked. 

NBC Bay Area visited an address listed for Irving Jr.’s father in Ashland and a man on the brink of tears told them: ‘I don’t want to talk right now, OK, because I mean I don’t know what’s going on and until all the facts come out cause I don’t know what’s going on.’ 

Samuael added that his brother became distant after he left school. ‘Everything changed after he graduated,’ he said. ‘Showed a lot of animosity towards me, even his brother since we were kids.’

The alleged gunman’s sibling also revealed he last spoke to his brother about five months ago and he had stopped calling him and his parents. He did not know he owned a gun.

NBC Bay Area also revealed that at Irving Jr.’s last listed address – in the Lockwood Gardens affordable housing community in Oakland – his apartment stands empty with belongings piled up outside.