The F.B.I. has opened an investigation into the demise of an American lady close to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, after a video that circulated on-line appeared to point out one other lady beating her, as another person recorded the assault on a telephone.
The lady, Shanquella Robinson, 25, of Charlotte, N.C., traveled final month to Mexico with six mates, based on her father, Bernard Robinson.
A few of these mates initially advised Ms. Robinson’s mom that Ms. Robinson had died of alcohol poisoning, Mr. Robinson mentioned. However a demise certificates issued by Mexican officers and obtained by a Charlotte tv station, WSOC-TV, listed the reason for demise on Oct. 29 as “extreme spinal twine harm and atlas luxation,” or the dislocation of a ring-shaped bone that helps the cranium.
The certificates said that Ms. Robinson was discovered unconscious in a lounge at an tackle in San José del Cabo, Mexico, and died about quarter-hour after she was injured. It didn’t point out alcohol poisoning.
Mr. Robinson mentioned he was shocked that the Mexican authorities had allowed his daughter’s mates to depart the nation after her demise. She had flown from Charlotte to Mexico on Oct. 28, he mentioned, in the future earlier than she died.
“I can’t discuss for her, however I’m going to be her voice,” Mr. Robinson mentioned in an interview on Tuesday. “I’m going to be her voice to the tip as a result of I’m going to resolve this.”
The F.B.I. discipline workplace in Charlotte confirmed that it had opened an investigation into Ms. Robinson’s demise however mentioned it could haven’t any additional remark. The State Division referred questions concerning the investigation to the F.B.I., however mentioned that it offers consular help to members of the family when an American citizen dies overseas.
“We provide our sincerest condolences to the household on their loss,” the State Division mentioned in an announcement. “Out of respect for his or her privateness, we now have no additional remark presently.”
Ms. Robinson graduated from West Charlotte Excessive College and had attended Winston-Salem State College, the place she met among the others — 4 ladies and two males — who traveled to Mexico along with her, based on her father.
Mr. Robinson mentioned his daughter grew up loving gymnastics and ran her personal enterprise braiding kids’s hair.
“She was a rising, sweet-hearted particular person — beloved folks, beloved her mates, beloved to have enjoyable,” Mr. Robinson mentioned. “Only a sensible, clever particular person.”
He mentioned he didn’t know why anybody would assault his daughter. However he mentioned that he acknowledged her in a video that has drawn consideration on-line. In line with Mr. Robinson, it reveals Ms. Robinson in a bed room, being repeatedly punched within the head and kicked by a lady as a person stands close by and says, “Quella, are you able to a minimum of struggle again?”
“It was her,” Mr. Robinson mentioned. “She’s not a fighter. She didn’t consider in drama. She wasn’t raised like that.”
The state lawyer common’s workplace of Baja California Sur, in Mexico, confirmed that an investigation had begun right into a femicide, or the killing of a lady due to her gender, based on ABC Information. The workplace mentioned it had acquired a name at about 6:15 p.m. on Oct. 29 from a “public safety member” who reported the demise of a international lady in a home within the Fundadores Seashore Membership space in San José del Cabo.
Investigators went to the scene and have been amassing “extra proof to attain the correct clarification of the occasions, with out ruling out any speculation,” the workplace mentioned in an announcement on Nov. 17, based on ABC Information. The workplace didn’t reply to calls and emails on Tuesday.
The Charlotte Observer reported that it had obtained a police report exhibiting that a physician had attended to Ms. Robinson after somebody referred to as for medical assist at a trip house at 2:13 p.m. on Oct. 29.
The physician was advised that Ms. Robinson had “drunk plenty of alcohol” and located her with steady very important indicators, however dehydrated, unable to speak and showing to be inebriated, the police report said, based on The Observer.
The report said that the physician wished Ms. Robinson to be taken to a hospital however that her mates insisted she be handled on the house, based on The Observer.
The physician tried unsuccessfully to present Ms. Robinson an intravenous line and was there for almost an hour when Ms. Robinson started to have a seizure, prompting a buddy to name for an ambulance, the police report said, based on The Observer.
The physician and one of many lady’s mates started CPR at 4:49 p.m. when the physician detected no pulse, The Observer reported.
Paramedics administered further rounds of CPR, in addition to adrenaline and discharges from an automatic exterior defibrillator, the report said. Ms. Robinson was declared lifeless at 5:57 p.m., it said.
Ms. Robinson’s funeral drew a whole bunch of mourners on Saturday to a church in Charlotte. Mr. Robinson mentioned he was “hurting to the core” after shedding his daughter.
“I simply need justice for my daughter,” he mentioned. “She’s gone, so proper now her dad goes to face and be her voice to the utmost and the fullest. I’m not going to let this go.”
Jesus Jiménez contributed reporting.