Robinson, a 25-year-old former student at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, died in October while staying in a luxury rental property in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
US Prosecutors Tell Family Of Shanquella Robinson They Won’t Pursue Indictments In Her Death In Mexico (Photo by: CNN)
The Death Of Shanquella Robinson
Based on the results of the autopsy and after a careful deliberation and review of the investigative materials by both U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, federal prosecutors informed Ms. Robinson’s family today that the available evidence does not support a federal prosecution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina said. The video has been reposted many times on social media sites. In it, a man with an American accent can be heard saying “Can you at least fight back?”
The man did not appear to intervene in the beating. Mexican prosecutors said police found Robinson dead at the villa on Oct. 29. Mexican officials said they could not confirm the cause of death because it was part of an ongoing investigation. When Salamondra saw the video, she said she knew it was her daughter. It raised questions about why nobody intervened in the purported beating, or why people she was traveling with would have beaten her.
The group Shanquella was traveling with were people she went to college with, Salamondra said. One of the guys supposedly was her best friend,” she said. “And he had went on family trips with us, you know? And he had been to the family house. Salamondra said she hadn’t seen him since she got the autopsy results. She said she hopes she can get more answers about what happened 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 said.
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