FBI investigating demise of North Carolina girl in Mexico who was seen being assaulted in video

The FBI has launched an investigation into the demise final month of a U.S. girl in Mexico who was seen being assaulted in a cellphone video which went viral.

The FBI confirmed in an announcement to CBS Information Tuesday that it has “opened an investigation” into the demise of Shanquella Robinson of Charlotte, North Carolina.

In accordance with the FBI assertion, the demise occurred “on or about” Oct. 29 in Cabo San Lucas. Mexican authorities final week mentioned the demise occurred in San Jose del Cabo, which is situated about 20 miles northeast of Cabo San Lucas. Each are situated within the state of Baja California Sur.

In a Nov. 17 assertion, Mexican prosecutors mentioned they had been investigating the demise of a girl, who they recognized solely as a foreigner, at a resort growth in San Jose del Cabo. On the time, nevertheless, a Mexican state official who was not licensed to be quoted by title 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 girl, apparently an American, beating one other girl.

The video has been reposted many occasions on social media websites. In it, a person with an American accent could be heard saying “Are you able to at the very least struggle again?” The person 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, informed CBS Information in an interview final week that investigators in Mexico had been trying into her daughter’s demise as a homicide.

“I used to be glad to listen to that,” she mentioned.

Salamondra mentioned she was initially informed by Shanquella’s associates that she had gotten sick with alcohol poisoning. However in a while, she discovered there was a struggle, and an post-mortem discovered she had accidents to her spinal wire and neck.

The post-mortem confirmed that “her demise had nothing to do with alcohol,” Salamondra mentioned.

Mexican officers mentioned they might not verify the reason for demise 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 one intervened within the purported beating, or why individuals she was touring with would have overwhelmed her.

“She was not combating no one again. She did not actually have a probability,” Salamondra mentioned. “Nobody tried to cease it.”

The group Shanquella was touring with had been individuals she went to school with, Salamondra mentioned.

“One of many guys supposedly was her greatest buddy,” she mentioned. “And he had went on household journeys with us, you understand? And he had been to the household home.”

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 coronary heart of gold.”

“She liked all people. She did not mistreat no one. By no means. Nobody may probably ever say something dangerous about her as a result of she was a very good particular person,” Salamondra mentioned.