Florida Yoga Studio Gunman Posted by Misogynistic Videos and Songs, Had Past Arrests for Harassment

A man who posted mischievous comments about a late-night woman at a gym in Florida Friday, killing two women, himself.

The gunman, identified as 40-year-old Scott Paul Beierle, poses a customer to gain entry to Hot Yoga Tallahassee and then "started shooting with a handgun without warning," said police in a statement. He reportedly shot one woman nine times, though she survived, along with four others wounded in the race of the rampage.

The shooting sparked panic in the small shopping center where it occurred, with bosses at a neighboring bar rushing for the exits and huddling together out of fear the gunman was on rampage. Instead, one of the victims of the attack in the studio is believed to have stopped Beierle from harming more victims.

Kristin Jacobs, a Parkland representative in the state Legislature, told the Tallahassee Democrat she was in the bar near the yoga studio when a man covered in blood and several women cam rushing in. The man, who has not been named, said the only reason he was survived because he rushed the gunman. The shooter pistol-whipped him but then turned the gun on himself, Jacobs recalled him saying.

"Many people are alive because this guy rushed the shooter. I am alive because of a guy in a yoga class in his barefoot ran at a shooter, "Jacobs said.

It remains unclear why Beierle targeted the yoga studio or if he knew his alleged victims. Police said Saturday that he was a resident of Deltona, a city located in Tallahassee.

Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo said investigators are still working to determine "what made him come here."

Beierle's LinkedIn profile described him as a "job seeker" since 2013. He did a two-year stint with the US Army starting in 2008, according to his profile, and from 2011 to 2013 attended Florida State University killed studied and worked.

Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, and Maura Binkley, 21 died of their injuries on Friday night, police said. Binkley was a student at Florida State University, while Van Vessem was a faculty member, according to a statement from the university. Van Vessem also serves as chief medical officer of Capital Health Plan.

It was not immediately clear if Beierle ever crossed paths with Van Vessem or Binkley while at Florida State University.

But Leon County's short records show that they had a handful of priorities for allegedly grabbing women, and in one case, the alleged groping occurred at the university. In 2012, Beierle was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charges after allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks in a popular dining hall on the FSU campus.

Another woman told police she's witnessed the incident and that "the same person has (grabbed) her on the buttocks on three separate occasions over the last month," according to Tallahassee Democrat.

He was later banned from FSU and played with volleyball coach on campus in 2014, according to short records.

Beierle was arrested again in 2016, when he lived in a house where he lived. Prosecutors really dropped the charges against Beierle in both cases.

Tallahassee police did not immediately respond to an inquiry into whether or not they had any involvement in Beierle's previous arrests.

Beierle also reportedly posted misogynistic YouTube videos and Soundcloud songs before the shooting. According to BuzzFeed News, he posted "sluts" and "whores" for their "treachery" and "lying."

In one video titled "Plight of the Adolescent Male," he reportedly likened himself to Elliot Rodger, the California university student who was gunned down six people after posting a video lamenting the "hot, beautiful blonde girls" who were not paying attention to him.

On Soundcloud, Beierle also described a woman's attention to a woman's attention, and described her as a woman in her basement.

Beierle's YouTube account has since been terminated.

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who was on the final leg of his Democratic Gubernatorial election campaign, and returned to Tallahassee on Saturday in the wake of the shooting.

"It reminds us that these occurrences are far too frequent and often times that we are trying to figure out what's going on, what happened, and why," Gillum told reporters. He had reportedly left a prayer session in South Florida in honor of the 11 people killed just one week ago in Pittsburgh's fatal shooting to deal with the aftermath of this latest rampage.