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BLM Activist Found Dead One Week After She Went Missing in Florida

BLM Activist Found Dead One Week After She Went Missing in Florida
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By Staff, Agencies

A 19-year-old Black Lives Matter activist from Florida has been found dead one week after she went missing.

Tallahassee police found the bodies of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, along with 75-year-old Victoria Sims, on Saturday. Their deaths are being investigated as homicides.

Police arrested a suspect, Aaron Glee, 49, the Tallahassee Police Department said.

Salau was last seen on June 6. Earlier that day, she’d tweeted that she was sexually assaulted. Her friend Chynna Carney confirmed the Twitter account belonged to Salau.

The tweets said that Salau had left some belongings at a church where she was seeking shelter and a man who'd offered her a ride to recollect the items later molested her while she tried to sleep.

It's unclear whether Glee is the same man Salau reported had molested her. CNN has reached out to Tallahassee Police to confirm Salau's account of sexual assault and is waiting to hear back.

Sims was a longtime AARP volunteer. Her family declined to comment on her death.

Salau had been Carney's friend since before high school, she said. The 19-year-old taught herself to sew, paint and design her own clothes.

"She had so many dreams and she never gave up," Carney said. But she'd endured a tremendous amount of pain, too; Carney described her as a sad person with the "happiest soul."

And she was always a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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