By JANIE HAR, Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The 27-year-old man charged with shooting former Oakland community college football coach John Beam made an initial court appearance Tuesday and will continue to be held without bail.

Cedric Irving Jr. has been charged with murder and several enhancements in Beam’s death, and he could face 50 years to life in prison if convicted, Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said at a news conference Monday.

He did not enter a plea Tuesday and his arraignment was set for Dec. 16.

Prosecutors have not provided a motive for the shooting at Laney College.

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Beam, 66, was a giant in the local community, a father figure who forged deep relationships with his players while fielding a team that regularly competed for championships. The Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U” focused on Beam and the Laney Eagles in its 2020 season. He’d most recently been serving as the school’s athletic director after retiring from coaching last year.

Irving has no criminal record, the district attorney said.

Officers arrived at Laney College before noon Thursday to find Beam shot in the head at the athletics field house. He was treated at a hospital, but died the following day from his injuries.

Irving was arrested at a commuter rail station just after 3 a.m. Friday. He was carrying the firearm used to shoot Beam, and he admitted to carrying out the shooting, according to the probable cause document.

Oakland police say the shooting was “very targeted.”

Back-to-back shootings at two schools last week have roiled Oakland, a city of roughly 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco. On Wednesday, a student was shot and wounded at Oakland’s Skyline High School.

Beam joined Laney College in 2004 as a running backs coach and became head coach in 2012, winning two league titles. According to his biography on the college’s website, at least 20 of his players went on to the NFL.

Federal agents detained people Tuesday at an industrial building off St. Paul’s University Avenue, prompting people to gather in protest.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said in a statement that ICE Homeland Security Investigations “and law enforcement partners conducted court authorized law enforcement activity and served a search warrant in furtherance of a federal criminal investigation,” which is ongoing.

People on social media noted that federal agents amassed in Newell Park on Fairview Avenue on Tuesday morning before heading to Bro-Tex Inc. on Hampden Avenue near University Avenue. The company’s website says they’ve been manufacturing and converting cloth and paper wiping products since 1923.

Outside the building, some people swarmed vehicles driven by federal agents and followed one, kicking it and yelling, “No justice, no peace.”

Federal personnel sprayed people with a chemical irritant. An observer said a protester was arrested.

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and City Council Member Molly Coleman, who represents the area, went to the site.

Coleman wrote on social media that they’ve heard reports that “several individuals” were taken by the federal government and said they’re working on getting more information.

“Federal agents caused multiple injuries and deployed tear gas multiple times,” Coleman wrote. “The agencies that had a confirmed presence are: FBI, ICE, DEA, and HSI. Federal agents were seen with ‘police vests’ but we have confirmation that SPPD and the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office were not involved or present.”

A person who answered the phone at Bro-Tex said the company had no comment as of Tuesday morning.

Carter wrote in a post: “Though we don’t have many details right now, I share the concern and fear this raises for our works, families, and the entire community. Remember you have rights” and directed people to stpaul.gov/immigration-resources.

The Immigrant Defense Network is planning a community vigil at the site, 830 N. Hampden Ave., at 9 am. Wednesday.

“What happened today is not law enforcement — it is an assault on our community,” said a representative from the Immigrant Defense Network in a statement. “No one should fear that simply going to work, providing for their family, or standing up for their neighbors will result in federal agents storming a workplace, detaining people en masse, and deploying chemical weapons against Minnesotans.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Art collectors have a chance Tuesday to buy one of the world’s most lucrative latrines: a solid gold, fully functional toilet.

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The piece, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — goes up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby’s in New York. The starting bid will be the market value of the 223-pound, 18-karat-gold work, currently about $10 million.

Cattelan has said the piece, titled “America, ” satirizes superwealth.

“Whatever you eat, a $200 lunch or a $2 hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,” he once said. Sotheby’s, for its part, calls the commode an “incisive commentary on the collision of artistic production and commodity value.”

Owned by an unnamed collector, it’s one of two such toilets that Cattelan created in 2016.

The other one was displayed in 2016 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which pointedly offered to lend it to U.S. President Donald Trump when he asked to borrow a Van Gogh painting. Then the piece was stolen while on display in England at Blenheim Palace, the country manor where Winston Churchill was born.

Two men were convicted in the toilet heist, but it’s unclear what they did with the loo. Investigators aren’t privy to its whereabouts but believe it probably was broken up and melted down.

“America” was exhibited at Sotheby’s New York headquarters in the weeks leading up to the auction.

Karen Read has sued witnesses from her murder case who she argues framed her for the killing of John O’Keefe and are “actually involved” in her Boston police officer boyfriend’s death.

Read and her defense team have filed a civil complaint in Bristol Superior Court against witnesses they point to as “third parties” for O’Keefe’s death and members of the Massachusetts State Police involved in the murder investigation.

The complaint comes months after a jury in Norfolk County acquitted Read of the Boston cop’s murder.

“For three and a half years,” the complaint states, “Plaintiff Karen Read was wrongly accused of homicide and subjected to suspicion, arrest, two prosecutions, and public condemnation, all resulting from the gross misconduct of the Massachusetts State Police – and those working in tandem with the MSP – to shield from liability the party or parties responsible for the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe III.”

“Now, after being acquitted of all charges relating to Mr. O’Keefe’s death,” the complaint continues, “Ms. Read brings this action to recover for and address the actions of those actually involved in Mr. O’Keefe’s death and the law enforcement officers who abjectly failed to ensure that justice was sought and served in the aftermath of January 29, 2022.”

Read’s attorneys, Damon Seligson and Alan Jackson, reiterate an argument presented in Read’s two criminal trials: That other parties inside Brian and Nicole Albert’s home, at 34 Fairview Road in Canton, killed O’Keefe.

The complaint targets Brian and Nicole Albert, Matthew and Jennifer McCabe and Brian Higgins as being involved in killing O’Keefe.

Read, 45, was indicted in June 2022 on charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision causing O’Keefe’s death.

She was tried twice, first in 2024, which ended in a mistrial, and then in a second trial, which ended this past June when a jury acquitted her on all the indicted charges. She was convicted of drunk driving.

“Karen Read did not kill her then-boyfriend, Mr. O’Keefe,” the freshly filed civil complaint states. “Rather, in the early morning hours of January 29th, Mr. O’Keefe was killed in Defendants Brian and Nicole Albert’s home … in an altercation during a late-night house party with other Defendants … after a night of heavy drinking.

“The House Defendants responsible for Mr. O’Keefe’s death – some of whom had professional experience with police investigations – concocted a plan immediately after the altercation to avoid culpability and to frame Karen Read,” the complaint continues.

The argument is also the same as the one covered in the wrongful death civil suit that the O’Keefe family has filed in Plymouth Superior Court against Read. Her defense attorneys pointed to the “third parties” in September.

Michael Proctor, the lead MSP investigator in O’Keefe’s murder, who has since been fired and lost an appeal to regain his job, MSP Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik and MSP Lt. Brian Tully are also being sued in the new civil complaint.

“From the beginning,” the complaint states, “investigators from the MSP allowed the House Defendants to direct the investigation away from themselves, and towards Ms. Read.”