"He saved me life": a man fought back during a yoga studio shoot with a broom

TALLAHASSEE, Florida – A yoga student is considered a hero for struggling with an armed man who pretended to be a client who wanted to go to a yoga studio in Florida and started shooting.

Joshua Quick spoke with ABC's Good Morning America channel on Sunday and said he grabbed Scott Paul Beierle's gun after blocking and hitting him. The Tallahbadee police identified Beierly as being the man who entered the Tallahbadee Hot Yoga clbad during a Friday night clbad and started shooting, killing two people and injuring six others. Police said Beierle, 40, then shot the pistol at himself but offered no motive in the attack.

Quick said Beierle was able to recover his weapon and then give him a boost.

"I jumped as fast as I could," said Quick, who had visible injuries to his face. "I ran back and the next thing I know is that I grab a broom, the only thing I can, and I've hit it again."

This created a window of opportunity for some people in the studio time to flee.

"Thanks to him, I was able to rush to the door," said Daniela Garcia Albalat at Good Morning America. She was in the clbad and thought that she was going to die when the shooting started. "He saved my life."

Two women – a 61-year-old Florida State University faculty member and a 21-year-old Atlanta FSU student who was due to graduate in May – were shot dead.

Dr. Nancy Van Vessem was an internist who was also the Chief Medical Officer of Capital Health Plan, the region's leading health maintenance organization. She was also a Florida faculty member and mother.

Maura Binkley grew up in Atlanta, was a member of a sorority and was studying for a double major in English and German.

It was a veteran and former teacher, who appeared to have made videos in which he hated his hate against everything from the law of affordable care to girls who allegedly abused him in college. The videos were posted four years ago and were removed from YouTube after the shoot.

Many troubling details about him appeared over the weekend. He had already been banned from the FSU campus and was arrested twice for seizing women, even though the charges were eventually dropped.

Beierle, who had moved to the city of Deltona in central Florida, after graduating from the postgraduate degree of the former Soviet Union, appeared to publish a series of videos on YouTube in 2014 in which he described the women of "whores" if they went out with black men. disgusting "and describes himself as a misogynist.

A Tallahbadee police spokesman did not confirm or deny that these videos belonged to Beierle. However, the man who speaks in the videos is similar to Beierle and the biographical details mentioned in the videos correspond to the known facts about Beierle, including details about his military service. In addition, the YouTube user name of the poster contained the word "Scott", named Beierle. The existence of the videos was reported for the first time by BuzzFeed.

In another video, the man who appeared to be Beierle compared his teenage years to Elliot Rodger, 22, who killed six students and injured more than a dozen near the University. from California to Santa Barbara, before killing himself in 2014..

A woman who filed a police report against Beierle told The Associated Press on Sunday that she had never forgotten how "scary" it was.

Courtnee Connon was 18 in 2012 when Scott Paul Beierle grabbed her butt in Florida State University's dining room. She refused, however, to file a complaint, thinking that he would be scared after an arrest and that she did not want to face him in court.

Yoga teachers in the small capital city – and across the country – were stunned and horrified that such a violent act could take place in a place conducive to tranquility, healing and non-violence.

"It's a place that brings me joy and peace, and I think it's ruined," said Katie Bohnett, an instructor at the yoga studio, who dropped out of her usual Friday practice to meet a friend at dinner . "This monster has ruined it."

Other yoga studios around Florida have organized clbades to help raise funds for the victims, and the Florida Yoga Teachers Association has set up a Go Fund Me campaign.

The news was at the center of the Yoga Journal's website: "Now yogis around the world are wondering if the place where they go when such events occur (read: their yoga studios) is a safe haven after all."

Some teachers wondered what they would say to their next clbad of students.

"As an instructor when you start each clbad, you ask students to close their eyes to relax because you are in a very safe space," said Amanda Morrison, a 35-year-old yoga teacher in Tallahbadee. .

She must give a clbad on Monday, and the safety of her students is her concern.

"I'm already thinking of closing the doors once the course starts," she says.