Tallahassee Yoga Shooting

 He pulled out a handgun and began firing 

What happened:

Just after 5:30 p.m. on Friday, a 40-year-old white man named Scott Beierle entered Hot Yoga Tallahassee, a yoga studio on the second floor of a shopping centre in Tallahassee’s Glendale neighbourhood. An evening yoga class had just begun, and Beierle, who was carrying a black bag, first posed as a customer. Then, without warning, he pulled out a handgun and began firing on the dozen or so people inside the studio. The gunman shot six women, killing two, and pistol-whipped a male yoga student. Beierle shot one of the women six times.

Who were the victims?

Two women were killed in the attack: Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, and Maura Binkley, 21.

Who was the shooter?

Scott Paul Beierle, 40, was a substitute middle school teacher, Florida State University graduate, and Army veteran. Beierle had a history of arrests for grabbing women, according to Leon County court records. He was arrested in 2012 on a charge of misdemeanour battery after allegedly grabbing the buttocks of two women on the campus of Florida State University, according to Leon County court records. He was arrested again in 2016 on a battery charge after allegedly slapping and grabbing another women’s rear end by the swimming pool at the West Tennessee Street apartment complex where he lived. The State Attorney’s Office filed information in both cases. However, prosecutors eventually dropped the charges. Originally from upstate New York, he had been living in Deltona, Florida, some 200 miles away from Tallahassee, where he was staying in a hotel before the shooting.

The shooter then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.