Frienemies – Shanquella Robinson

In today’s episode we’re teaching you to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what happens when the lines are blurred and you can’t tell whos who? It’s the sad case of Shanquella Robinson Right now on Love and Murder.

 

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In today’s episode, I’ll be telling you about a very recent case – as of this recording. It’s a case of knowing who your friends are and how TERRIBLE people can be. So grab your butts, grab your apple juice, and grab your kids and hug them close. 

 

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First I want to say, since this case is still on going, I want to point out that everything is still alleged (as I have to say that for legal reasons to cover my ass). 

 

Now:

 

Shanquella Robinson was born around 1997 in Charlotte North Carolina to parent Bernard and Salamondra Robinson. She also had a sister named Quilla. She graduated from West Charlotte High School, went to and graduated from Winston-Sale State University. After graduation, she ran a successful hair-braiding business for children called The Exquisite Kids, and also owned a women’s boutique called The Exquisite Boutique. Quilla Long, her sister said,  “She had a heart of gold. She loved everybody, and pretty much everybody loved her.” 

 

On Friday, October 28, 2022 Shanquella went on a trip with 6 friends to Cabo, Mexico. The friends were her best friend of 5 years, Khalil Cooke, Wenter Donovan, Malik Dyer, Nazeer Wiggings, Alysse Hyattand, and Daejhanae Jackson. The group was stayed at Villa Linda 32, owned by Cabovillas.com 

 

When they arrived, a private chef cooked them dinner and she called her parents. 

 

“She told me they had a chef. They were getting ready to eat. They were eating tacos or a salad or something, and I said, ‘OK. I love you. Have a good night, and I will talk to you tomorrow.’ I never talked to my child again. She never made it back home.” Her mother said

 

On Saturday evening, her parents called and Shanquella’s friends said she wasn’t feeling well, and they were going to call a doctor. When her parents called back, her friends said that the doctor hadn’t yet arrived. They told her parents that they thought the issue was alcohol poisoning. 

“They said she wasn’t feeling well. She had alcohol poisoning. They couldn’t get a pulse. Each one of the people that was there with her was telling different stories.”

 

Allegedly, at 2:23pm, a guest called medical staff at the resort and told them that Shanquella had “drunk a lot of alcohol.” An hour later, Dr. Karolina Beatriz Ornelas Guitierrez arrived and said she found Shanquella alive. She then advised that she be transferred to a hospital due to dehydration, but her friends refused to do so. Dr. Guitierrez eventually convinced someone to call an ambulance, after it was shown that death was imminent. Then, for the next three hours, she attempted 14 sessions of CPR, six electric shocks with a defibrillator and five doses of adrenaline but Shanquella suffered a seizure and died of cardiac arrest.

 

She was pronounced dead at 5:57pm.

 

Sometime after, a timeframe wasn’t given, Shanquella’s group of friends left her body in the rental, in Mexico, with no one who knows her to watch after it, and returned to their homes, to their families, to their loved ones in the United States.

 

The family then started hearing rumblings – something about a fight in Mexico between Shanquella and her friends.

 

One day Khalil, the best friend, came to Shanquella’s family to pay his condolences I guess. They then asked him about this fight that they keep hearing about and he said he wasn’t aware of it because he wasn’t in the room at the time. 

 

Shanquella’s parents were suspicious; something just wasn’t adding up. They pushed officials to look deeper into the death of their daughter. The U.S. State Department officials in Mexico reportedly denied that the death was a murder. They said that the police investigation down there showed no signs of foul play and they ruled it death by alcohol poisoning.They’d actually released a statement saying, “no clear evidence of foul play.”

 

The family paid $6,000 to have her body flown back to North Carolina on November 10.

 

Salamondra and Bernard was still looking for answers when their daughter’s body arrived and confirmed their suspicions. 

 

“I cried like a baby. When I opened that box, saw her there … she had a knot on the corner of her head, her lip was cut, her eye was swollen. Deep down in my heart I knew it wasn’t alcohol poisoning.” Bernard said

 

The family called for an autopsy. 

 

Then, the day before the autopsy report was came out, Shanquella’s friends went over to her parent’s house and each of them told the family a description of what happened in Mexico. Each description was different by the way. Her parents didn’t believe any of their stories.

 

On November 16 the autopsy report came back and it showed that Shanquella died of “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation.” Basically she died of a broken neck and a fractured spinal cord. 

 

The official autopsy report said that medical officials came to see Shanquella before 3 p.m. 15 minutes later she declared dead from sustaining an injury to her spinal cord and neck. 

 

“After they said it was alcohol poisoning, we received the autopsy report on Thursday and it said that her neck had been broken and she had a back spasm there was a crack, spinal cord was crack. She had been beaten.” 

 

Also, the death certificate by the Mexican government said that Shanquella had been “found unconscious” in the living room of the rental property and that the doctor tried to revive her with CPR but couldn’t. It’s not known if Dr. Guitierrez realized that Shanquella had a spinal injury. Maybe her friend’s insisting that it was alcohol poisoning affected the treatement the doctor was giving Shanquella.

 

Mexican prosecutors have labeled her death as “a direct attack, not an accident.” 

 

On November 17, the State Attorney General’s Office released that Shanquella died at about 6:15 p.m. on October 29 and added in a statement:

 

“State Criminal Investigation Agents went to the scene where the initial investigation was carried out under the corresponding protocols. Experts from the Director of Specialized services carried out the processing of the premises in search of any indications that should be included within the investigation file.

 

The PGJE will maintain the leadership of the investigation in order to collect more evidence and achieve an accurate clarification with the facts, without ruling out any hypothesis.”

 

On November 18, a video was released by blogger Gerald Jackson – with the permission of Shanquella’s parents. 

 

The video starts out on a happy note with Shanquella telling her friends, ‘It don’t take that long to get naked. Where y’all at?”

 

She then joins some women to talk about what bathing suits they’re going to wear.

 

It was reported that – and I say this because I didn’t watch the video. I really couldn’t bring myself to watch such savageness. Anyway, it was reported that you could tell by the other people’s mood when Shanquella walked in, that something was off. Some people on social media theorize that there were talking about her while she’d been out of the room. One online person with the handle of 1bee_marie wrote, “WOWWWWW this is sad. You can tell they had a problem with her. And probably didn’t say anything cuz she walked in recording.”

 

The next part of the video is Shanquella standing naked facing a “very well known” female friend, and then the friend simply starts punching her. 

 

It’s not clear exactly when the video was taken, but as the recording progresses, you can see Shanquella being beaten and a male voice in the background says, “Can you at least fight back? At least something.”

 

“Nooooo,” Quella responded as Daejhanae was punching her in the head, face, and back of her neck and knees.

She repeatedly punches her in the head and she falls to the ground. Daejhanae can be seen kicking her while she’s sitting on the ground near a bed. Then Daejhanae starts and continues hitting her in the face and then knees her in the head before swinging several punches at her head. Someone then tells Shanquella to “get up.” As the video ends, Shanquella is seen slumped on the ground.

 

Her father also confirmed that one of the friends grabbed her by her neck and body slammed her.

 

Also remember her best friend said he wasn’t in the room and he didnt’ know what happened? Well allegedly the video said otherwise.

 

I won’t be sharing the video as the case has been moving along and I don’t feel comfortable sharing such a messed up video. If there were still questions in the case, like who’s in the video, I would have shared it.

 

The FBI Charlotte Field Office opened an investigation and allowed Mexico to extradite the suspect or suspects. Also, Dr. Guitierrez, who treated her, and the two police officers are also reportedly under investigation by Mexican authorities

 

​​“The FBI Charlotte Field Office has opened an investigation in the death of Charlotte resident, Shanquella Robinson in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on or about October 29, 2022. Due to the ongoing investigation, we have no further comment.” 

 

Currently, the Mexican authorities are investigating the case as a femicide. A femicide is defined as the homicide of a woman because of her gender. It’s interesting to note that Mexico has seen a serious rise in femicides in recent years. Femicides have increased from 427 victims in 2015 to 1,004 in 2021, as reported by the Vision of Humanity.

 

Social media played a huge part in getting this case to move forward. After the video was shared, the people in the video were identified and the 6 friends were also named. Due to the scrutiny, US officials in Mexico began taking the case seriously and the FBI got involved. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClAfmk7rRx3/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=31f267a3-8872-4edc-b15c-13248291d868 

 

Nazeer Wiggins took to social media to post a video in an effort to clear his name. He said that he didn’t know about the attack in the room. He said he got to Cabo a day after and his friends told him “that Quella was sick and she was showing signs of alcohol poisoning.”

 

SlimeCita on social media posted a twitter thread that I agree with. The thread said:

 

One of her friends, who wasn’t in Mexico took to Facebook to allege that the group had stolen $10k from Shanquella after she died and before they’d come back to the US. 

 

The family held her funeral on Saturday November 19.

 

Her father, Bernard Robinson, told WBTV, “All I’ve been doing is just crying trying to figure out what happened. I can’t even be a grandfather, can’t even walk her down the aisle, she’s gone.”

 

The latest update in the case is that the State Attorney General Office of Baja California Sur reported that the investigation is still underway and that the results will only be shared to the extent that the legal framework allows. 

 

On November 23, prosecutors in Mexico issued an arrest warrant for an unnamed woman in the case. The charge is femicide and the suspect could face up to 60 years in a Mexican prison if convicted. 

 

“I feel so good. That’s what we have been waiting for, for someone to be held accountable and arrested finally. I can’t wait for justice to be served.” he parents said.

 

I’ll keep you updated as the case unfolds.

 

And that is the sad case of Shanquella Robinson, a case that reminds you that not everyone is your friend and to becareful of who you hang out with.

 

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