Ms. Salau, 19, was found dead along with a 75-year-old woman in Tallahassee, Fla., the police said. Their deaths are being investigated as homicides.
A 19-year-old Black Lives Matter activist whose disappearance this month led to a desperate search after she sent a series of tweets describing a sexual assault has been found dead in Tallahassee, Fla., the police said Monday.
The activist, Oluwatoyin Salau, was one of two women whose bodies were discovered in an area southeast of the city on Saturday evening, the police said. Both the deaths were being investigated as homicides, the police said, and a suspect, Aaron Glee Jr., 49, was in custody.
The other victim was identified as Victoria Sims, 75, an AARP volunteer. The authorities provided few details and did not say how the women had died or what connection, if any, they had to each other or the suspect. Mr. Glee has not yet been appointed an attorney, the Leon County Court said.
Ms. Salau was last seen on June 6, according to the police, and friends and fellow activists raised concerns about her well-being after she wrote a number of alarming posts on Twitter that day in which she described being sexually assaulted by a man who had offered her a lift and a place to stay.
