Tequilla ”Quilla” Long, sister of the late Shanquella Robinson, said “Everybody doing time in Mexico.” Robinson’s family has expressed their frustration with the FBI for the lack of communication.
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Updated 12/09/2022
Shanquella Robinson’s family is still awaiting an arrest for her murder. Though it’s been two weeks since an arrest warrant was issued for an unnamed individual, the family is still seeking answers and justice.
Long, Robinson’s sister, was joined by Charlotte, NC community organizers Mario Black, founder of the Million Youth March of Charlotte and Salisbury, and Lakeisha Mobley, a rep for Team True Blue and Mothers of Murdered Offspring, at a press conference.
“Everybody doing time in Mexico,” Long said, would be the justice her family needs.
Long’s wish isn’t too far-fetched; according to the New York Post, Mexican authorities issued an arrest warrant. But with the arrest order came some “political hurdles” in extraditing the suspect to Mexico despite the US and Mexico having an extradition treaty in place since the late 1970s.
Part of the issue, according to other media reports, is that a red notice from Interpol had not been issued for the suspect, despite the Mexican authorities’ request for the unnamed suspect to be extradited from the US to face charges. In response to the viral video of Robinson’s friends fighting her, Black –– called it a “slap in the face” to the Robinson family as he said it exposed the lies her friends told when they were together in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
“We appreciate Charlotte stepping up,” Mobley said. “We appreciate all of the stars and the people who have come in who are sharing because without them bringing attention to this, we honestly don’t know if anything would’ve happened.”
This past October, Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old hairdresser, was killed while on a trip with a group of friends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to celebrate one of their birthdays.
A police report obtained by Texas Metro News reveals a brief timeline explaining what transpired leading up to her passing. Around 2:00 pm on October 29, Wenter Donovan—one of Shanquella’s friends—phoned a nearby hospital after Shanquella “drunk a lot of alcohol.”
Dr. Karolina Gutiérrez arrived at the villa to treat her and believed she should be transferred to a hospital for better assistance. However, her friends refused and wanted her treated in the villa. After she had a seizure, Wenter called 911 for an ambulance, after a medical team performed CPR and rounds of treatment with no success.
At 5:47 pm, Shanquella was pronounced dead. Shanquella’s family has since set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for legal fees; the page has received nearly $400,000 in donations. This includes $65,000 from Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving.
Last month, a woman named Shanquella Robinson was killed while on vacation with some friends in Cabo San Lucas. Conflicting statements on her last whereabouts leave her family with multiple questions.
25-year-old Shanquella Robinson traveled with a group of friends from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on October 28th, reportedly to celebrate one of their birthdays. Robinson, well-known in her community for her hair-braiding business, was found dead a day later.
Her parents, Bernard and Salamondra Robinson, were left rattled by her sudden death. Salamondra, perhaps even more so as she was the last to speak with her. She shared with WBTV 3 that she heard from her friends the night after her passing.
Mrs. Robinson stated the last time she spoke with her, she was having dinner, and she never spoke with her again. She added, “On Saturday evening, they called and said she wasn’t feeling well and they were going to call a doctor. And when they called, the doctor hadn’t arrived yet, but they said she had alcohol poisoning.”
Although her friends said she died from alcohol poisoning, the official autopsy report reveals more. The report says Shanquella had a broken neck and her spinal cord was cracked, implying that someone may have attacked her.
The report may be correct as handheld footage of a woman being beaten to death, believed to be Shanquella, was posted online recently. In the video, the woman is hit in her head, back, and neck while someone tells her to “fight back.”
News of the late 25-year-old has also reached many celebrities. Singer and Love & Hip Hop star K. Michelle took to Twitter to share her condolences, saying, “For them to beat that girl like that and tell her to fight is just disgusting. Just broke my heart.”
Twitter user @yeezyluciano recently shared that the woman who reportedly killed the North Carolina native is allegedly accepting Cashapp payments for interviews to “tell her side of the story.”
