Family of NC woman killed in Mexico demand suspect’s extradition

Attorneys for the family of a North Carolina woman killed during a vacation to Cabo San Lucas are calling on President Joe Biden to have the alleged murderer, who has now been named by the family, extradited to Mexico. Mexican authorities currently have an arrest warrant out for Daejhanae Jackson, 26, in relation to the October 2022 death of Shanquella Robinson (pictured), 25. In a letter addressed to President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, attorneys for the Robinson family requested immediate diplomatic intervention on the transnational case.

Jackson was identified as the woman seen in a video brutally attacking Robinson inside the villa that a group of friends had rented in Cabo for one of their birthdays. Though the family and the letter identified Jackson as the primary suspect in their daughter’s death, the suspect’s identity has not yet been made public by the police. ‘An autopsy report prepared on October 30th, 2022 in Mexico by Medical Examiner Dr. Rene Adalberto Galvaan Osegura noted that Shanquella’s body had a head injury 3 and concluded that Shanquella’s cause of death was a broken neck,’ said the letter. Shanquella Robinson died while on a group trip to Cabo San Lucas in late October 2022.

‘The President or the Secretary of State must step in and ask: for the extradition of the suspect or suspects or concurrent jurisdiction and file charges in the United States,’ said attorneys Benjamin Clump (pictured) and Sue-Ann Robinson – who is not related to the victim. The letter explained that Jackson and two other people on the trip took Robinson’s luggage back to her home in Charlotte, North Carolina and delivered their condolences to Robinson’s mother, telling her that her child had died of alcohol poisoning. The video shows the terrifying moment Shanquella Robinson was attacked while she was unclothed in a bedroom.

A representative for Villa Linda 32, the property where the group was staying, told WJZY that the concierge contacted a doctor who attempted to revive Shanquella. She was declared dead at 3pm local time, reportedly about 15 minutes after she was beaten. After the video became public in November, a femicide investigation was launched in Mexico. Attorneys for the Robinsons are now asking the Biden administration to step in and assist with it. The 18-page letter received by the Biden administration said that Jackson had been the primary point of contact for the group’s seven travel companions.

Robinson, according to the letter, ‘did not seem to fit in with the others’ and seemed ‘out of place’ the day before a call was placed to her mother that she had suffered alcohol poisoning in the room. The letter also includes, according to a Fox News report, that a hotel staff witness identified Jackson as the aggressor in the video. The witness added that Jackson ‘manipulated me’ with information she provided at the scene of the crime in order to ‘leave the country as soon as possible.’ Robinson was declared dead after two sets of medical professionals responded to the scene over the course of several hours. One staff member said that Jackson gave him an ‘indifferent’ hug when he offered his condolences and claimed he later heard ‘laughing’ from the room after he walked out in order to give the group space. Pictured: Attorney Sue-Ann Robinson-not related to the victim. 

The next day, the group departed the hotel and Jackson did not respond to a text message from a staffer asking where she was until October 31, when she informed the staffer that the group had gone home, according to the witness statement. ‘If a United State citizen commits homicide in Mexico and returns back to the United States, as you are aware they can face criminal charges in the United States under federal law or state law, depending on the circumstances of the crime,’ read the letter. ‘Federal charges are brought in cases where the crime involves interstate commerce or federal law enforcement agencies. We know in a transnational case where evidence was possibly transported and persons of interest communicated with each other via cellphone federal charges could be brought against those responsible for Shanquella’s death,’ it continued.

The letter went on to say that the family has come across ‘numerous obstacles’ in attempting to get information, including during a subsequent trip to Mexico on which Sue-Ann Robinson said the U.S. consulate suggested that relatives should reach out directly to the individuals Robinson was traveling with for answers. ‘Certainly this is an unacceptable response to share with an American family in regards to their daughter’s murder,’ said Sue-Ann Robinson. Fox reported that the State Department said it has ‘no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas but does not comment on American citizens’ private correspondence as a general matter of privacy.’ ‘The Department does not provide confirmation of, or commentary on, investigations due to privacy and law enforcement considerations. Also, as a matter of long-standing practice, the Department also does not comment on extradition matters.’

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