A week after being reported missing by loved ones, the body of 19-year-old activist Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau was discovered in Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America, along with the body of 75-year-old AARP volunteer, Victoria Sims.
According to police report, which was released on Monday, both Salau and Sims’ bodies were found on Saturday, June 13, on the 2100 block of Monday Road in connection with a missing persons investigation.
The Police also stated that one suspect, 49-year-old Aaron Glee Jr, was taken into custody.
Salau, who was known for her support of the Black Lives Matter movement online and off, and has a brother named Oluwaseyi Salau, initially went missing on June 6, hours after tweeting about being sexually assaulted by a man at 5:30 a.m. that same day.
Although Salau’s disappearance garnered massive online attention, her death was first confirmed publicly by her family to local outlets outlets and then by the Tallahassee Police Department in a press release late Monday morning.
In the days leading up to this discovery, advocates erupted in an effort to find Salau after she tweeted details of an alleged assault last week. Salau, an activist who had been a fixture in Black Lives Matter protests in Tallahassee since the death of George Floyd, detailed her experience being molested before she disappeared in a Twitter thread.
“I was molested in Tallahassee, Florida by a black man this morning at 5:30 on Richview and Park Ave,” Salau tweeted the morning of her disappearance. “The man offered to give me a ride to find someplace to sleep and recollect my belongings from a church I refuged to a couple days back to escape unjust living conditions.”
In her Twitter thread, the 19-year-old wrote that she went home with the man, who “came disguised as a man of God,” before informing him that she was sexually assaulted by a 32-year-old in March.
According to her depiction of events, she said that the man exposed himself to her after offering her a shower, and later started rubbing her back and body “before he climaxed.”
“Once I saw he was asleep, I escaped from the house and started walking from Richview Road to anywhere else,” she wrote. “Literally wearing this man’s clothes right now DNA all over me because I couldn’t locate his house the moment I called the police because I couldn’t see.”
RIP to 19 year old activist Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau. 🙏🏾
She was found dead after detailing a sexual assault and being heavily active in protests in Florida. #JusticeforToyin pic.twitter.com/gxuEe4Ybwz
— 247 Live Culture (@247LC) June 15, 2020
