FL - Oluwatoyin “Toyin“ Salau, 19, and Victoria Sims, 75, murdered, Tallahassee, June 2020 *arrest*

[Dénouement]

Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing woman who had been participating in protests in town in the days before being reported missing.

TPD says 19-year-old Oluwatoyin "Toyin" Salau was last seen on June 6, in the area of Orange Avenue and Wahnish Way in Tallahassee.


Tallahassee Police asking for public's help in finding missing 19-year-old


TALLAHASSEE — In the hours before Oluwatoyin Salau went missing, she tweeted she had just been sexually assaulted.

Salau, a 19-year-old Black Lives Matter protester, was last seen June 6 in Tallahassee, according to the Tallahassee Police Department. Police and her fellow demonstrators are still searching for her.

The afternoon she went missing, Salau tweeted a man molested her that morning. She said the man offered to give her a ride back to a church where she had sought "refuge" because of "unjust living conditions."

"He came disguised as a man of God and ended up picking me up from nearby Saxon Street," she tweeted. "I trusted the holy spirit to keep me safe."

Salau said she called police after the assault happened. She did not specify the church where she had been staying.

Black Lives Matter protester reported missing in Florida after tweet


Twitter

https://twitter.com/virgingrltoyin/status/1269342679294509056?s=20

Her Twitter thread thread describes the act and the man

 

[Dénouement]

Heavy’s five facts you should know Oluwatoyin Salau Missing: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

 

[kelsie]

TPD searching for missing 19-year-old activist last seen Saturday
Another link with a different picture of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau. I pray she is found safe.

 

[Wowno17]

Praying for this lady, the details so far are awful and I'm hoping she comes home safe.

MOO

 

[PayrollNerd]

Did she use the man's cell phone to call LE or a landline? It's not clear, to me anyway. I wonder if he woke up and went looking for her. If her vision is poor, would she be able to find her way back to the church without assistance from anyone?

 

[GraceG]

Picture from LE booking from 2019 with shorter hair. (you have to scroll to the "s" names to find her). http://media.graytvinc.com/documents/Booking+Report+7-9-19.pdf

 

[kelsie]

Ativista do Black Lives Matter some após tuitar que havia sido assediada
Translated to English:

Oluwatoyin Salau, an activist affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement in Tallahassee (USA), has been missing since last Saturday after tweeting that she had suffered sexual harassment.

According to the local newspaper Tallahassee Democrat, police and fellow protesters from Salau continue to search the city. In a long series of tweets at 4 pm on June 6, the activist said a black man driving a white Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck stopped her on the street and offered a ride to a nearby church, where she had left several of her belongings.

The tweets continue to explain her situation, saying that she has suffered sexual harassment before, has symptoms of post-traumatic stress and has vision problems. The man in question, according to the activist, "pretended to be someone religious" and took her to his house. Acting in an initially respectful way, he offered her a bathroom so she could take a hot shower.

When she got out of the bath and lay down, already dressed, he approached her and offered a massage. Salau says in the tweets that his memories from then on are diffuse, but that he remembers him taking off his own clothes and, when he finally came to, the man was sleeping naked beside him. The activist has not posted anything on her social media since then, nor has she been seen by friends. "I am very nervous for her," said Jesula Jeannot, who met Salau recently in one of the protests.

 

[ReaderRabbit]

Ativista do Black Lives Matter some após tuitar que havia sido assediada
Translated to English:

I am confused-the victim refers to their self as her and then later as him. IMO

 

[ReaderRabbit]

I am confused-the victim refers to their self as her and then later as him. IMO

Ok I saw the mug shot. Question answered. I hope she is found safe and soon.

 

[mgeni]

I am confused-the victim refers to their self as her and then later as him. IMO

I’m guessing that’s due to the translation. When I translate things using an online translator, it often interchanges the two.

 

[Dénouement]

Twitter is talking the news isn’t...

 

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[Dre]

This is so heartbreaking! So worried about this beautiful human!

 

[katydid23]

Did she use the man's cell phone to call LE or a landline? It's not clear, to me anyway. I wonder if he woke up and went looking for her. If her vision is poor, would she be able to find her way back to the church without assistance from anyone?

That's what I worry about too. Maybe he went looking for her, afraid she would report him. I hope LE figured out who he was. But I am not sure there was enough of a description. Praying hard she is found safe somewhere, Please Lord.

 

[ReaderRabbit]

I’m guessing that’s due to the translation. When I translate things using an online translator, it often interchanges the two.

Good point. Thank you

 

[sds71]

On social media, people widely spread the news on June 15 that Salau’s body had been found (the term RIP Toyin even trended on Twitter); however, no credible media sites or authorities have confirmed this publicly yet, and police have not updated their releases still calling her a missing person. Police did announce they had found two bodies while investigating a missing person’s case, but they didn’t name the victims or specify the case; according to the Tallahassee Democrat, there is another missing person case in the area of a woman named Victoria Sims, a 75 year old AARP volunteer (WCTV has confirmed that Sims is a homicide victim). Heavy has reached out to police for more information, including to confirm whether it’s true that Toyin Salau was found dead.
Oluwatoyin Salau, ‘Toyin’: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

 

[sds71]

Her family confirmed the death Monday morning.
Salau was found dead Saturday night after she went missing more than a week ago, on June 6, family members told the Tallahassee Democrat of the USA TODAY Network.
Oluwatoyin Salau: Florida protester found dead in Tallahassee


"Toyin was very passionate," said Hemphill. "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."
Florida protester Oluwatoyin Salau found dead in Tallahassee after going missing

 

[sans_soleil]

She was only 19, please don't shame her for her choices, people make mistakes but do not deserve to get murdered of course because of some naive misguided decisions. We need more organized community support for victims of violence and sexual assault.

 

[CHEL]

Two people found dead in missing person case; Tallahassee police have suspect in custody

 

[sans_soleil]

I have read certain things on social media that make this situation even more tragic and make it clear this girl was just desperate for any kind of shelter. RIP the world failed her.