A 19-year-old Florida protester was found dead over the weekend, after coincidentally vanishing the same day she tweeted about being sexually assaulted, police said Monday.
What We Know:
- The body of Oluwatoyin Salau, who took part in Black Lives Matter protests in Tallahassee, was discovered late Saturday as officers investigated a missing person’s case, Tallahassee police said. A second woman, Victoria Sims, 75, who had also been reported missing, was found dead nearby.
- Aaron Glee Jr., 49, has been arrested in connection to the slayings, but police did not elaborate on any alleged relationship between him and the women. “There is no further information to release at this time,” Tallahassee police said in a statement.
- Glee, who lives on Monday Road, where Salau’s body was found, was taken into custody on May 30th on a charge of aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability.
- Neither Salau nor Sims was the victim in that case, according to court records cited by the Tallahassee Democrat. “She was very vocal, she was very loving, very spiritual, very caring. Toyin, she was like a light in a dark room. That was Toyin,” stated her friend Danaya Hemphill.
- The 22-year-old last saw Salau one day before she vanished and expected the worst, she said. “I had a feeling that we were not going to find Toyin alive,” Hemphill told the newspaper.
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- Salau, who was discovered a few miles from where she was last seen at a library, detailed an alleged sexual assault on the day she disappeared. “Anyways I was molested in Tallahassee, Florida by a black man this morning at 5:30 on Richview and Park Ave,” she mentioned on the Twitter thread.
- Sims, who was reported missing Thursday, was a retired state worker who spent her career in local Democratic politics. She also worked as a volunteer for AARP Florida, WTXL reported.
Any additional information or comments from police Monday have not surfaced as of late.
