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TALLAHASSEE, Florida – A yoga student is considered a hero for fighting with an armed man who pretended to be a client Florida yoga studio and started shooting. Joshua Quick told ABC Sunday of "Good Morning America" and said that he had grabbed Scott Paul Beierle 's weapon after getting stuck and hit him.
Tallahassee police identified Beierle as the 40-year-old man entered the Tallahassee Hot Yoga during a Friday night class and started firing, killing two people and injuring six others. Police said Beierle then turned the pistol on himself but had 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 class 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 faculty member of the FSU and a mother. Maura Binkley grew up in Atlanta, was a member of a sorority and was studying for a double major in English and German.
An armed man killed two people in Florida.
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He was a veteran and a former teacher, seemed to have made videos in which he detailed his hatred of the Affordable Care Act to girls who allegedly ill-treated 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 had been arrested twice for seizing women – even though the charges had finally been dropped.
Beierle, who had moved to the city of Deltona in central Florida after graduating from the FSU, appeared to publish a series of videos on YouTube in 2014 in which he called women "whores". if they went out with black men, said that many black women were "disgusting" and describes themselves as a misogynist.
