Scott Beierle was a member of FSU Republicans and the Facebook group We Are Conservatives. He also was an open misogynist and racist who posted hate-filled videos on YouTube ranting against women and interracial marriage. He admired Elliot Rodger, the man who killed six and wounded fourteen in California. He was forty years old and ranting about girls who slighted him in eighth grade to the present.
He was fired as a substitute teacher for inappropriately touching a middle school girl. There were regullar complaints about him being creepy.
Before he entered a Florida yoga studio and killed two people and wounded four, he was arrested for groping women and prosecutors dropped the charges.
- Buzzfeed News: The Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was a Far Right Misogynist Who Rallied Against Women and Minorities
- Washington Times: Man who killed two at yoga studio was fired for touching girl
- NBC: Gunman who attacked Florida yoga studio gave of decades of warning signs, Secret Service finds
St. Petersburg, Florida · Sunday, June 09, 2019