Updated at 3:22 p.m. ET
More information is being revealed about the online and criminal history of the man who killed two people, injured five others and then killed himself in a Tallahassee, Fla., yoga studio Friday evening. He had been charged with battery twice, and multiple news outlets have reported on evidence of his misogynist and racist beliefs.
In a press release Saturday, Tallahassee Police identified the assailant, who shot six people with a handgun and pistol-whipped a seventh person during the attack, as 40-year-old Scott Beierle. He was a resident of Deltona, Fla., and a graduate of Florida State University.
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