Oluwatoyin Salau BLM protester Reported dead after disappearing on 6th June

Oluwatoyin Salau Biography and Wiki

Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau was an activist in the Tallahassee community. She was reported as a Missing Persons by family after disappearing on June 6th, 2020. Toyin was an active protester for the Black Lives Matter protests and always advocated for equal rights for the African American community.

Oluwatoyin Salau Age

As of 2020, Oluwatoyin Salau was 19 years old.

Oluwatoyin Salau Death

Oluwatoyin Salau who is a 19-year-old Black Lives Matter protester has been found dead after tweeting that a man who offered her a ride to church had molested her, on her Twitter account on June 6th, 2020. The hashtags #RIPToyin and #JusticeForToyin began trending on the 15th of June when social media learned the death of the 19-year old activist.

“The Tallahassee Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is seeking information on the location of Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau,” said a post from the department at the time.

“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 the day of her disappearance, Toyin, as she is popularly called, had tweeted that she had been molested by a man who had offered to take her to a place to sleep.

“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,” Salau tweeted on June 6.

She went on to describe her attack in a Twitter thread.

One of the tweets read:

“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.”

Oluwatoyin Salau Family

After doing our research, details about Toyin’s parents are not known to the public and it is also not known if she has any siblings. This section will be updated as soon as information about her family is revealed.

Oluwatoyin Salau Molested

On June 6th Toyin tweeted that she was molested by a black man on Richview and Park Ave who initially introduced himself as a man of God. He offers to give her a place to sleep and also recollect her belongings from a church she found refugee in.

When they arrived at his house, he offered her a shower and gave her clean clothes. As she was obviously scared she began telling the man her sexual assault experience with a 32-year-old man before. The man then asked her if she wanted a massage since she could not sleep. The man began touching her, molested her, and went to sleep.

When she realized he was asleep, Toyin escaped from the house wearing his clothes to anywhere she could find help. Since that day she never tweeted anything and that was the last time she was last heard.

Oluwatoyin Salau Search and Investigation

Police and her fellow demonstrators were still searching for her before she was confirmed dead. 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. Several people replied to her on Twitter offering help and asking whether she was OK. She never responded and hasn’t tweeted since.

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