The man says that he struggled with an armed man during a yoga studio shoot

A man who was trying to stop an attack on a yoga studio in Florida said Sunday that he had battled the attacker after blocking his gun, which would have allowed others to flee the cave that left two dead and six wounded.

Joshua Quick, a yoga student, spoke on Sunday with ABC's Good Morning America newspaper and said that he had grabbed Scott Paul Beierle's pistol after getting stuck and l & # 39; He had struck.

The Tallahassee police identified Beierle as the man who was preteen to enter the Tallahassee Hot Yoga studio during a Friday night class and began filming. Police said Beierle, 40, then turned the gun on himself, but the authorities gave no reason for the attack.

Quick said Beierle was able to retrieve his gun and whip it with a pistol.

"I jumped as fast as I could," said Quick, wounded in the 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 gave studio time to escape.

"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 she was going to die. "He saved my life."

Two women – a 61-year-old Florida State University faculty member and a 21-year-old FSU student – 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, who grew up in Atlanta and was a double major in English and German, was due to graduate in May.

Beierle has been described as a veteran and former military teacher, who appears to have made videos detailing his hatred against everything from the Affordable Care Act 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 it have emerged. 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 Tallahassee 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 facts known about Beierle, including the details of his military service. The YouTube user name of the poster included the word "Scott", Beierle's first name. The existence of the videos was reported for the first time by BuzzFeed.

A woman who filed a police report against Beierle told AP that she had never forgotten how "scary" it was.

Courtnee Connon was 18 in 2012 when, she said, Scott Paul Beierle grabbed his buttocks in a refectory of the Florida state. However, she refused to lodge a complaint.

She learned of Beierle's involvement on Friday when a local journalist found her name in a police report and called her.

"I was totally shocked," she said. "Since then, I feel a little guilty, if I had complained, would it have prevented him from doing that?" How was he not monitored?

Four years later, Beierle had been arrested for jail time after a young woman had said that he had approached her near the swimming pool of an apartment building in New York City. Tallahassee, had completed his rear end and offered to rub the sunscreen. The woman stated that she had declined the offer and that, according to an affidavit, Beierle had then struck her buttocks and had seized her.

William N. "Willie" Meggs, the highest prosecutor in the 2016 Beierle case, does not personally remember this case. However, since the battery charges in 2012 were dropped, said Meggs, it would have been normal for Beierle to receive a deferred prosecution contract.

"It would not have been unusual as a delinquent for the first time to get a diversion," said Meggs, since retiring as a district attorney for Florida's second judicial circuit. "We should have called the victim to make sure she was fine with the distraction."

The court record does not clearly indicate whether this happened and the woman did not respond to e-mails asking her to comment. The AP does not publicly identify victims of sexual assault unless they choose to speak.

Court records indicate that prosecutors agreed to forgo battery after Beierle had a six-month diversion agreement that required him to avoid trouble, not drink too much and follow the psychologist's recommendations. .

Meanwhile, yoga teachers in the Florida capital and the country in general were horrified by the fact that such a violent act could take place in a place conducive to tranquility and non-violence.

Some teachers wondered what they would say to their students.

"As an instructor when you start each class, you ask students to close their eyes to relax because you are in a secure space," said Amanda Morrison, an instructor from Tallahassee.

She is concerned about the safety of her students as she prepares to teach a class on Monday.

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

The Associated Press reporter, Michael Biesecker, has contributed since Washington.