Shanquella Robinson Death — The death of a U.S. woman who was seen being beaten in a viral video has been the subject of an investigation, according to Mexican prosecutors who announced it on Thursday.
In a statement, prosecutors in the state of Baja California Sur said they are looking into the death of a woman at a resort in the city of San Jose del Cabo, who they only identified as a foreigner.
A state official who was not authorized to be quoted by name confirmed the victim was Shanquella Robinson. The official confirmed that the group she had been traveling with had since left Mexico.
#BREAKING Mexican authorities confirm they’ve started “La Carpeta de Investigación se inició por el delito de feminicidio” = the killing of a woman.
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A video apparently taped at a luxury villa in San Jose del Cabo shows one woman, apparently an American, beating another woman.
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.
Prosecutors said police found Robinson dead at the villa on Oct. 29.
The Charlotte, North Carolina station Queen City News published a report saying Robinson died of a severe spinal chord injury.
After Mexican prosecutors announced they had opened an investigation, Shanquella’s mother, Salamondra Robinson, told CBS affiliate WBTV on Thursday the news “feels good.”
“My stomach doesn’t feel so empty. Feels like we getting somewhere,” she said.
WBTV reported the parents of Robinson were initially told that she had gotten sick with alcohol poisoning while on a trip with friends in Cabo on Oct. 28.
Mexican officials said they could not confirm that was the cause of death, because it was part of an ongoing investigation.
The video raised questions about why nobody intervened in the purported beating, or why people she was traveling with would have beaten her.
In another case in a different part of Baja California Sur, prosecutors said they had arrested three men and one woman in the Oct. 25 disappearance of another American, identified as Rodney Davis, 73.
Davis was last seen near El Juncalito beach in the township of Loreto, well to the north of San Jose del Cabo.
The three suspects face kidnapping charges. Davis’s body was found two days later on a nearby highway.
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