A Florida yoga man who killed two racist and misogynist videos posted | American News

The man who shot two women in a yoga studio in Tallahassee on Friday seems to have posted racist and misogynistic videos online.

Police said Scott Paul Beierle, 40, had gone to the studio as a client before opening fire. He also wounded four people before attacking him in the studio, police said. He then shot and killed himself. Police said the studio appeared to have been chosen as a random target.

On Sunday, yoga instructor Joshua Quick told ABC that he had seized the Beierle gun after blocking it. Beierle again took control of the gun and hit it, he said, adding that he had then grabbed a broom and hit Beierle, thus leaving some people time to get caught. ;escape.

The women who were killed were Maura Binkley and Nancy Van Vessem. Both were connected to Florida State University, which is based in the city.

The Tallahassee Democrat said that Binkley, 21, was due to graduate in May and is studying German and publishing, writing and media. Her father told the paper that she was hoping to get a job at Teach for America.

Dr. Van Vessem, 61, was a FSU faculty member and chief medical officer of Capital Health Plan, claiming that she was a "guiding and visionary force," whose "dedication, dedication and Attention, leadership, humanity and experience inspiring and accomplished health professionals in the state and country.

In a statement, FSU President John Thrasher said, "Losing one of our students and one of our teachers in this tragic and violent way is devastating for the Florida State family. University. We deeply feel this loss and extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones of Maura and Nancy as we pray for the recovery of the wounded. "

BuzzFeed first reported the existence of the videos, which were published on YouTube in 2014. The biographical details mentioned seemed to match the known facts regarding the Tallahassee shooter. The police did not immediately confirm the link.

The videos contained complaints about how blacks dress and talk and said that women who went out with black men were "whores". A video contained a speech about how women had led the author to be misogynist. Another lamented an "invasion" of the United States by migrants from Central America.

In a video, Beierle reportedly compared his teenage years to Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old British man who stabbed or killed six people and wounded more than a dozen in Isla Vista, California in 2014. Before kill yourself.

Rodger was a self-identified "incel", an abbreviation for "unintentional bachelor", an online culture in which men accuse their wives of failing to succeed sexually with women.

Beierle was a graduate of the FSU but lived in Deltona, east of Orlando. The public records show that he was twice accused of seizing women's buttocks, but the records were dropped. In 2014, after a similar incident, he was banned from the FSU campus.