Mexican Officials, FBI Investigate Shanquella Robinson Death As Femicide

Mexican Officials and the FBI are investigating US woman Shanquella Robinson death as femicide.

CityNews Nigeria reports that the FBI and Mexican prosecutors have opened separate investigations this week into the mysterious death of a North Carolina woman, who went on vacation late last month with friends in Mexico and returned home in a bodybag.

This online platform understands that Shanquella Robsinon, a 25-year-old woman from Charlotte, traveled to the resort city of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico on Oct. 28 with six friends to celebrate one of their birthdays, but less than 24 hours later she was found dead.

Three weeks later, Robinson’s family just wants answers. But thus far, they feel they’ve only been given the runaround by authorities and conflicting stories from her friends about what led to her death.

“They said she wasn’t feeling well. She had alcohol poisoning,” Robinson’s mother, Sallamondra, told WSOC-TV last week, recalling an anxious call she got from one of her daughter’s friends. “They couldn’t get a pulse. Each one of the people that was there with her was telling different stories.”

The Mexican Secretariat of Health’s autopsy report and death certificate for Robinson, obtained by ABC News, lists her cause of death as “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation” with no mention of alcohol. The document also states that the approximate time between injury and death was 15 minutes, while a box asking whether the death was “accidental or violent” was ticked “yes.”

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.