*The body of missing Black Lives Matter activist Oluwatoyin Salau was found Saturday night, over a week after she vanished on June 6 in Tallahassee, Florida.
Salau, 19, went missing hours after writing on Twitter that she had been sexually assaulted by an older man. Police confirmed she was found dead off Monday Road in southeast Tallahassee. Her cause of death has not been revealed, PEOPLE reports.
Along with her body, investigators also recovered the body of Victoria Sims, 75, who had been reported missing earlier in the day.
Sims was an advocate for the elderly and AARP volunteer. Tallahassee.com reported: “The 19-year-old and 75-year-old met after recent protests over justice for black lives.”
The suspect, Aaron Glee Jr., 49, has been arrested in connection with the slayings.
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According to the police press release (via heavy.com):
At approximately 9:15 p.m. Saturday night, June 13th, TPD investigators arrived in 2100 block of Monday Road in the course of a follow up investigation in a missing person case. During the course of the investigation, two deceased people were located in the area. As the investigation continued, investigators developed a suspect. The suspect is now in custody and no more information is available at this time.
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— pro black womxn and lgbt only stan account. (@_omnificent_) June 15, 2020
It is unclear if Glee is the same person Salau alleged assaulted her.
Glee reportedly has a history of violence, including two recent battery cases involving another man and woman, as well as a slew of past criminal cases.
Hours before she disappeared on June 6, Salau wrote a series of tweets about being molested in Tallahassee by a Black man she initially assumed was “a man of God.”
She wrote: “Mid 40’s lives in a gray painted duplex apartment style house drives a white clean Silverado Chevrolet truck.”
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help Salau’s family.
You can read her full Twitter thread about the assault below:
Anyways I was molested in Tallahassee, Florida by a black man this morning at 5:30 on Richview and Park Ave. 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.
— Oluwatoyin (@virgingrltoyin) June 6, 2020
As a Black Lives Matter activist, Salau would recite the names of Black people killed by police or suspected white supremacists, such as George Floyd of Minneapolis.
“I don’t want their names gone in vain,” Salau said during one protest last month.
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