JusticeForOluwatoyin !!! She was 19 and should still be here today. We need to protect our Black girls and women.
Activists and allies on social media are calling for justice for Oluwatoyin Salau, known as Toyin, after she was found dead over a week post a June 6 disappearance.
Toyin recently tweeted that a man who had offered her a ride to church molested her; she went missing shortly thereafter. Nine days later, on June 14,The suspect, Aaron Glee Jr., was taken into custody following afor aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability and a June 9 arrest for battery.
A woman named Ashley, who explained that she was helping Toyin's mother, broke the news of Toyin's murder on Twitter on June 14. The Tallahassee Police Department confirmed the news withToyin was seeking refuge at a church after leaving her home, which upheld unjust living conditions according to her tweet, when the man who offered to give her a ride assaulted her. Toyin wrote that she called the police right after.
"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," Toyin tweeted on June 1.
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