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The gunman who went on a rampage in a Florida yoga studio, fatally shooting two people before killing himself, was fired from a substitute teaching job five months ago amid allegations he pawed at a middle schooler, officials said Monday.

Scott Paul Beierle, 40, was abruptly booted from his full-time gig at Galaxy Middle School in Deltona on May 25 after being accused of asking a girl in his classroom if she was ticklish and then touching her “below the bra line,” a Volusia County School District report says.

“Student was frightened and hid behind another student,” the report says.

Beierle was pulled from the classroom and taken to an administrative office to write a statement — but tried to make a run for it and had to be brought back in for questioning. Five days later, he was fired.

By the time the creep went to work for the Volusia County school district in February 2017, he’d already been charged with battery in 2012 and 2016, when two young women said he groped them around Florida State University. Prosecutors dropped the charges in both cases.

Kelly Schulz, a spokeswoman for the school district, said Beierle passed federal and state criminal background checks. He was issued a DOE teaching certification in July 2015.

Since the Nov. 2 shooting in Tallahassee, Beierle has also been identified as a raging misogynist who posted several videos on YouTube in 2014 in which he ranted about “whores” and “sluts.”

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