Our bodies of lacking activist, AARP volunteer found in Florida

The bodies of a lacking protester and an AARP volunteer contain been found over the weekend in Tallahassee, Florida, authorities said Monday.

A suspect of their disappearances, Aaron Glee Jr., 49, change into taken into custody, Tallahassee police said. It wasn’t straight away plug what charges Glee would face.

The division known the women folk as Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, and Victoria Sims, 75. Their bodies contain been found all the contrivance via an investigation Saturday a few miles southeast of downtown Tallahassee, police said.

Further particulars about their disappearances or their that which which you might perhaps maybe place confidence in connection weren’t straight away available.

Salau, who passed by “Toyin,” change into final considered June 6, authorities said. On the identical day, Salau tweeted that she had been molested by a man who equipped to support discover her property from a church the set up she had been staying.

Salau said in the thread that she had contacted the police about the incident. NBC News hasn’t independently verified her chronicle.

Salau change into recorded on video in an earlier explain over the killing of Tony McDade, a murky transgender man who change into shot to loss of life in Tallahassee on Might maybe maybe 27.

McDade, 38, change into a suspect in a reported stabbing. Whereas procuring for McDade, an officer opened fire on him after he “made a dawdle constant” with using a gun, police said.

“We’re doing this for him,” Salau said. “We’re doing this for our brothers and our sisters who obtained shot. But we’re doing this for every murky person, because on the discontinue of the day, I will be succesful to’t tackle my fpores and skin color off.”

Sims, who change into reported lacking Saturday, change into a retired negate worker who volunteered for the AARP and worked in native Democratic politics, The Associated Press reported.

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The community’s negate director, Leslie Spencer, described her to the Tallahassee Democrat as “one in every of the most kind and gentlest souls I knew.”

“She continuously had and thoughtful notice in an effort to add to the dialog but she wasn’t vexed to quiz exhausting questions of lawmakers,” she urged the newspaper.

A chum of Salau’s described her to NBC News as “an shiny soul” who “cared about all and sundry but herself her complete existence” and dreamed of becoming a dressmaker, artist and photographer.

“She loved art, she change into art, she is art,” the supreme friend said. “I love you Toyin.”