Mexican Officials, FBI Investigate Shanquella Robinson Death As Femicide

According to the document, which was dated Nov. 4, Robinson was found unconscious in the living room of a residence on Padre Kino Avenue in San Jose del Cabo on the afternoon of Oct. 29.

Recently, a video surfaced online purportedly showing a woman attacking Robinson. The video raised questions about why nobody intervened in the purported beating, or why people she was traveling with would have beaten her.

Speaking to WSOC-TV, Robinson’s mother identified the people in the footage as the friends who accompanied her daughter to Mexico and said she believes it was taken during the trip. In the video, someone can be heard asking if Robinson “could at least fight back.” It’s unclear when and where the video was taken.

“It was never a fight. She didn’t fight. They attacked her,” Sallamondra Robinson told WSOC-TV. “She did not deserve to be treated like that.”

The State Attorney General’s Office of Baja California Sur publicly confirmed the results of the autopsy in a statement on Thursday and announced that “an investigation was initiated for femicide,” which is a form of gender-based violence.

The office said it received a call on Oct. 29 at approximately 6:15 p.m. local time from a “public security member” who reported the death of a foreign woman in a room of a house in the Fundadores Beach Club area in San Jose del Cabo. Investigators were sent to the scene and are still collecting “more evidence to achieve the accurate clarification of the events, without ruling out any hypothesis,” according to the office.