Federal prosecutors have announced that they will not file charges in the death of Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old Black American woman found dead in Mexico in October 2022. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina, there was insufficient evidence to support a federal prosecution based on the autopsy results and a careful review of the investigation materials.
Shanquella Robinson had traveled to San José del Cabo the day before her death with friends, and her friends initially reported that she died of alcohol poisoning, but a death certificate obtained from a Charlotte TV station contradicted this.
The federal government has stated that if new information becomes available, it will consider reviewing the case. However, the attorneys for Robinson’s family, Ben Crump and Sue-Ann Robinson, noted differences between the autopsies performed in the United States and Mexico.
They stated that while the decision not to pursue charges was disappointing, they still believed that justice could be served in Mexico, and they hoped that the case would be further investigated.
We previously reported, that Shanquella died on a birthday vacation celebrating one of her friends. She was in Mexico with a group of about six, who eventually traveled back to the United States without her body following her mysterious death.