The FBI has launched an investigation into the dying final month of a U.S. lady in Mexico who was seen being assaulted in a cellular phone video which went viral.
The FBI confirmed in a press release to CBS News Tuesday that it has “opened an investigation” into the dying of Shanquella Robinson of Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to the FBI assertion, the dying occurred “on or about” Oct. 29 in Cabo San Lucas. Mexican authorities final week mentioned the dying occurred in San Jose del Cabo, which is situated about 20 miles northeast of Cabo San Lucas. Both are situated within the state of Baja California Sur.
In a Nov. 17 assertion, Mexican prosecutors mentioned they had been investigating the dying of a girl, who they recognized solely as a foreigner, at a resort improvement in San Jose del Cabo. At the time, nonetheless, a Mexican state official who was not approved to be quoted by identify confirmed the sufferer was Robinson. The official confirmed that the group she had been touring with had since left Mexico.
A video apparently taped at a luxurious villa in San Jose del Cabo reveals one lady, apparently an American, beating one other lady.
The video has been reposted many occasions on social media websites. In it, a person with an American accent could be heard saying “Can you at least fight back?” The man didn’t seem to intervene within the beating.
Mexican prosecutors mentioned police discovered Robinson useless on the villa on Oct. 29.
Shanquella’s mom, Salamondra Robinson, instructed CBS News in an interview final week that investigators in Mexico had been trying into her daughter’s dying as a homicide.
“I was glad to hear that,” she mentioned.
Salamondra mentioned she was initially instructed by Shanquella’s mates that she had gotten sick with alcohol poisoning. But afterward, she realized there was a battle, and an post-mortem discovered she had accidents to her spinal twine and neck.
The post-mortem confirmed that “her death had nothing to do with alcohol,” Salamondra mentioned.
Mexican officers mentioned they might not affirm the reason for dying as a result of it was a part of an ongoing investigation.
When Salamondra noticed the video, she mentioned she knew it was her daughter. It raised questions on why no person intervened within the purported beating, or why folks she was touring with would have overwhelmed her.
“She was not fighting nobody back. She didn’t even have a chance,” Salamondra mentioned. “No one tried to stop it.”
The group Shanquella was touring with had been folks she went to varsity with, Salamondra mentioned.
“One of the guys supposedly was her best friend,” she mentioned. “And he had went on family trips with us, you know? And he had been to the family house.”
Salamondra mentioned she hadn’t seen him since she bought the post-mortem outcomes. She mentioned she hopes she will be able to get extra solutions about what occurred to her daughter, whom she described as having “a heart of gold.”
“She loved everybody. She didn’t mistreat nobody. Never. No one could possibly ever say anything bad about her because she was a good person,” Salamondra mentioned.