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Sexual battery. On June 13, 2020, two community activists local to the Tallahassee area, 19-year old Oluwatoyin Salau and 75-year old Victoria Sims, were found murdered in Tallahassee, Florida. The suspect, Aaron Glee Jr., who was 49 at the time of the murders, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and felony murder among other ...
Perry, Florida. Nationality. American. On May 7, 2008, 23-year-old Rachel Morningstar Hoffman (December 17, 1984 – May 7, 2008), [1] was murdered by two drug dealers, 23-year-old Deneilo Bradshaw and 25-year-old Andrea Green after being pressured to act as a police informant in a botched drug sting by the Tallahassee Police Department. [2]
Ruby Diamond. Ruby Pearl Diamond (September 1, 1886 – March 8, 1982) was an American businessperson and philanthropist from Tallahassee, Florida, known for her support of a wide array of charitable causes, especially racial equality, Jewish life, and Florida State University. Over her life, Diamond gained a reputation as a "shrewd ...
Bill Gunter – a former Florida congressman, state treasurer and insurance commissioner in the 1960s through '80s – died at his Tallahassee home Monday afternoon. He was 89.
Grace Pateras, Tallahassee Democrat October 30, 2023 at 7:58 AM The murder trial for Fort Lauderdale periodontist Charlie Adelson began Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in a Leon County courtroom.
Dan Markel. Daniel Eric Markel (October 9, 1972 – July 19, 2014) was a Canadian-born attorney and a law professor, who wrote various works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing, with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. He earned a J.D. degree from Harvard University in 2001 and after working as a law ...
Killing of Tony McDade. / 30.415412; -84.298648. On May 27, 2020, after 11 a.m., [ 2] a 38-year-old African-American [ 3][ 4] transgender man, Tony McDade, [ 5][ 6][ 4][ 7] was fatally shot in the Leon Arms apartment complex by an officer of the Tallahassee Police Department, [ 8] following the fatal stabbing of Malik Jackson on nearby Saxon ...
Betty Jean Owens. Betty Jean Owens (born 1940) is an African American woman who was brutally raped by four white men in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959. [1] Her trial was significant in Florida, and the South as a whole, because the white men were given life sentences for their crimes. Prior to Owens' case, sentences of this severity had not been ...