A 19-year-old American activist, and a Black Lives Matter protester, Oluwatoyin Salau ‘Toyin’ has been found dead, after tweeting that a man who offered her a ride to church had molested her, according to her Twitter page.
Oluwatoyin Salua was reported to have gone missing in Tallahassee, Florida United States and there were police and community effort underway to find her after she disappeared.
“Silence is the best weapon for some but not for me I will not be silenced,” she wrote recently on her Twitter page, which she filled with comments about race and social justice.
Oluwatoyin Salau was last seen in Tallahassee, Florida, on June 6, reported USA Today citing the Tallahassee Police Department.
Salau’s disappearance has sparked a great deal of emotion on social media, where many questions why the media have not covered her case more widely, and some criticized police for, in their view, not doing more considering the number of details Oluwastoyin Salau herself posted on Twitter about what she said was a sexual assault right before she vanished.
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).
On June 14, a woman who goes by Ashley on Twitter and who indicated she was helping Salau’s mother, wrote, “I’m sorry to inform everyone about this but Toyin is no longer with us.”
On June 11, the same woman wrote on Twitter, “She’s been missing since last Friday since she left me and my friends. Last time she was last sighted was at the BL Perry Library on Saturday then after that we haven’t seen her. If you know any info please contact me because I’m helping her mom. She’s somewhere on the south side.”
Another woman claimed on a True Crime Group, “The family messaged in the group chat thanking everyone for their help and letting everyone know that she was no longer with us, and asking for people to give them time and not mention it on social media. Some friends who weren’t part of the search group started posting about it…there are no firm answers.”
Tallahassee Police have classified Oluwatoyin Salau as a “missing adult,” giving her name as Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau.
A missing person’s poster released by police stated that she is 19 years old, 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes.
“The Tallahassee Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is seeking information on the location of Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau,” the post says.
“Salau was last seen on June 6, 2020, in the area of Orange Avenue and Wahnish Way in Tallahassee. She may be in the area of Jakes and Patterson Street. There is no known clothing description for Salau at this time.”
On June 6, 2020, on her Twitter page, just hours before she disappeared, Salau wrote a series of disturbing tweets.
“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 of days back to escape unjust living conditions,” she wrote.
She continued:
“He came disguised as a man of God and ended up picking me up from nearby Saxon Street. I entered his truck only because I carry anything to defend myself not even a phone (which is currently at the church) and I have poor vision.
I trusted the holy spirit to keep me safe. When we arrived at his house he offered me a shower and I thanked him and shower and he gave me a change of clothes. He exposed himself to me by peeing with the bathroom open obviously knowing I was out of it. I told him about a sexual assault situation that happened”
Salau described an alleged sexual assault by another man who she said, back in March, “tried to force me to give him oral sex and then continued to harrass (sic) me thru text and knocking at my door for days.” She wrote that she is 19 and that man was 32.
She continued:
“Going back to the situation that happened to me this morning, I did not fall asleep. He then asked me if I wanted a massage at this moment his roommate who was in the house was asleep. I was laying on my stomach trying to calm myself down from severe ptsd. He started touching me back and rubbing my body using my body until he climaxed and then went to sleep.
Before I realized what happened to me I looked over and his clothes were completely off. Once I saw he was asleep I escaped from the house and started walking from Richview Road to anywhere else. All of my belongings my phone my clothes shoes are all assumably at the church where I’ve been trying to track since I sought spiritual guidance/ refuge.
I will not be silent. 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 see2.
She added: “Mid 40’s lives in a gray painted duplex apartment style house drives a white clean Silverado Chevrolet truck.”
Salau filled her Twitter page with comments about race, police and other issues affecting society. “What do white people b tryna escape,” read one recent post.
“The media loves to censor black pain for a groundbreaking story there is no middle ground… keep reporting and fact checking stay on y’all toes,” read another. Other posts:
“Abeg stop using Black as an umbrella term African Americans are being targeted you people want to say Black but when its any other ethnicity you’ll list the whole al pha bet.”
“White suprecrazy.”
“In this dim ass social age Black could mean anything your fav white celebs get called black and for marrying African Americans will you shut up your mouth.”
“it’s so funny how white ppl use reverse psychology for every conflict and it’s not even that effective.”