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A yoga student is being studied for a wrestling with a gunman who poses as a customer to get a yoga studio in Florida and started firing.
Joshua Quick spoke to ABC's Good Morning America on Sunday and said he grabbed Scott Paul Beierle's gun after it jammed, and hit him. Tallahassee Police have identified Beierly as the man who entered the Hot Yoga Tallahassee during a nightclub and started shooting, killing two and wounding six. Police say the 40-year-old Beierle then turned the gun on his way.
Quick said Beierle was able to grab the gun back and then pistol-whip him.
"I jumped up as quickly as I could," said Quick, who had visible injuries on his face. I'm grabbing a broom, the only thing I can, and I hit him again. "
It created a window of opportunity for some people in the studio time to flee.
"Thanks to him I was able to rush out the door," Daniela Garcia Albalat told Good Morning America. She was in the class and thought she was going to die when shooting broke out. "He saved my life."
Two women – a 61-year-old faculty member at Florida State University, and a 21-year-old FSU student from Atlanta who was due to graduate in May – were fatally shot.
Dr. Nancy Van Vessem was an internist who also served as chief medical officer for the Capital Health Plan, the area's leading health maintenance organization. She was also a faculty member at Florida State 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.
He was a brooding military veteran and trained teacher, who appeared to be in the middle of everything. The videos were posted four years ago, and have been removed from YouTube in the wake of the shooting.
Numerous disturbing details about him over the weekend. He'd once been banned from FSU's campuses and had been arrested.
Beierle, who had moved to the central Florida town of Deltona after getting a graduate degree from FSU, appeared in a series of videos on YouTube in 2014 where he called women "whores" if they dated black men, said many black women were " disgusting "and described himself as a misogynist.
A Tallahassee police spokesman would not confirm or deny the videos were Beierle's. However, Beierle, including details about his military service. Also, the poster's YouTube username included the word "Scott," Beierle's first name. The existence of the videos was first reported by BuzzFeed.
In another video, the man who appeared to be Beierle likened his teenager self to Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old who killed six students and wounded more than a dozen others near the University of California, Santa Barbara, before killing himself in 2014 .
A woman who filed a report against Beierle told The Associated Press on Sunday that she's never forgotten how "creepy" he was.
Courtnee Connon was 18 in 2012 when Scott Paul Beierle grabbed his buttocks in the dining hall at Florida State University. She declined to press charges, however, thinking that it would be scared after an arrest and that she would not want to face him in court.
Yoga teachers in the small capitol city – and around the country – were stunned and horrified that such a violent act could unfold in a place intended for tranquility, healing and nonviolence.
"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 skipped her normal Friday practice to meet a friend for dinner. "This monster ruined it."
Other yoga studios around Florida, Florida Yoga Teachers Association set up a Go Fund Campaign.
The news is on the front page of the Yoga Journal's website: "Now, they are going to be questioning whether they are going to be safe after all."
Some teachers wondered what they would say next class of students.
"As an instructor when you start every class, you're in such a safe space," said Amanda Morrison, a 35-year-old yoga instructor in Tallahassee.
She's scheduled to teach a class Monday, and the safety of her students is on her mind.
"I'm already thinking about locking the doors, once again," she said.
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