The parents of a woman killed in November’s shooting at Hot Yoga are suing the studio and the property owner claiming both were negligent in providing adequate safety the day of the incident.

Jeff and Margaret Binkley, the parents of 21-year-old Maura Binkley, filed the negligence lawsuit in Leon county Circuit Court on June 5 against Hot Yoga Tallahassee and Betton Place Partners, a company owned and operated by NAI TALCOR owner Ed Murray.

The 12-page lawsuit asserts both the yoga studio’s owner and the property owner failed to take proper security measures to protect patrons.

They “should have known that were was a propensity for criminal conduct by third persons that unreasonably exposed invitees to an unreasonably dangerous condition on the premises that was likely to cause harm to invitees,” the lawsuit contends.

Ron Sachs, a spokesman for Betton Place Partners, was sympathetic to the pain the incident has caused families and the community but called the lawsuit “misguided.”

“There’s one bad guy in this scenario who chose to do this and cause all this pain,” said Sachs, who is the CEO of Sachs Media Group. “It’s misguided and just plain wrong to dishonor the facts and the truth of this tragedy by a lawsuit grounded in seeking compensation.”

Maura Binkley and Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, were killed Nov. 2 when Scott Beierle entered Hot Yoga Tallahassee's 5:30 p.m. class at its Betton Place studio and posed as a customer before opening fire without warning.

The 40-year-old turned the handgun on himself and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police arrived about three minutes after the first reported gunshots.

Tallahassee Police were unable to establish a direct motive for the shooting at the yoga studio, but they pointed to his deep-seated hatred of women and his self-proclaimed identification as an involuntary celibate.

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Five others were wounded in the melee.

The lawsuit cites 21 security failures of the studio and Betton Place, including not having security guards, cameras, proper lighting, training or procedures. Because of "inadequate" or "nonexistent" visible or physical deterrents "criminals could carry out physical assaults on the defendant's premises without fear of being caught, discovered and/or prosecuted," the lawsuit said.

Additionally, the complaint alleges, "an atmosphere was created ... which facilitated the commission of crimes against persons."

Neither Jeff Binkley nor his Coral Gables attorneys with The Haggard Law Firm responded to requests for comment Wednesday. Hot Yoga's owner Brittani Whittington was also not available for comment.

The Haggard Law Firm has a noted practice in negligent security and mass shooting civil litigation.

In a video — which includes footage from the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting and the Pulse Night Club shooting — the firm points to the power civil lawsuits can have on changing “what should be considered adequate security."

“With the technology and training the security industry offers, there’s no excuse for property owners if they haven’t changed their security plans and a tragedy occurs,” the narrator of the video says.

The firm’s managing Partner Michael Haggard continues:

“Do night clubs have a notice now that a mass shooting could occur in night clubs? Yes. Do airports have notice? The question is are our local businesses are our local schools, are the local night clubs – you could pick any industry – are they taking advantage of that and changing their behavior to be responsive to the challenging times that we live in?”

Since the shooting, Jeff Binkley has spent a lot of time in Tallahassee advocating for a change in the way society addresses hate and gun violence. In March, he started Maura’s Voice, a research foundation dedicated to the intersections of mental illness, hate and gun safety — with a goal of developing policy proposals to address violence.

Sachs refuted the lawsuit's claims that the lack of a security guard, cameras or safety policies in the plaza contributed to the rampage.

“This lawsuit reflects an unfortunate cynicism that does not lessen the tragedy of last year but only serves to compound it,” Sachs said. “Quite frankly, security cameras or a security guard are absolutely not a guarantee that this particular crime would have been averted or avoided.”

Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter