The FBI has launched an investigation into the loss of life final month of a U.S. lady 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 loss of life of Shanquella Robinson of Charlotte, North Carolina.
In keeping with the FBI assertion, the loss of life occurred "on or about" Oct. 29 in Cabo San Lucas. Mexican authorities final week stated the loss of life occurred in San Jose del Cabo, which is positioned about 20 miles northeast of Cabo San Lucas. Each are positioned within the state of Baja California Sur.
In a Nov. 17 assertion, Mexican prosecutors stated they had been investigating the loss of life of a lady, who they recognized solely as a foreigner, at a resort improvement in San Jose del Cabo. On 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 will be heard saying "Are you able to a minimum of combat again?" The person didn't seem to intervene within the beating.
Mexican prosecutors stated police discovered Robinson useless on the villa on Oct. 29.
Shanquella's mom, Salamondra Robinson, instructed CBS Information in an interview final week that investigators in Mexico had been wanting into her daughter's loss of life as a homicide.
"I used to be glad to listen to that," she stated.
Salamondra stated she was initially instructed by Shanquella's buddies that she had gotten sick with alcohol poisoning. However afterward, she realized there was a combat, and an post-mortem discovered she had accidents to her spinal wire and neck.
The post-mortem confirmed that "her loss of life had nothing to do with alcohol," Salamondra stated.
Mexican officers stated they might not affirm the reason for loss of life as a result of it was a part of an ongoing investigation.
When Salamondra noticed the video, she stated she knew it was her daughter. It raised questions on why no one intervened within the purported beating, or why folks she was touring with would have overwhelmed her.
"She was not combating no one again. She did not actually have a probability," Salamondra stated. "Nobody tried to cease it."
The group Shanquella was touring with had been folks she went to school with, Salamondra stated.
"One of many guys supposedly was her greatest buddy," she stated. "And he had went on household journeys with us, you already know? And he had been to the household home."
Salamondra stated she hadn't seen him since she bought the post-mortem outcomes. She stated 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 beloved all people. She did not mistreat no one. By no means. Nobody might probably ever say something dangerous about her as a result of she was a very good individual," Salamondra stated.