Video shows Shanquella Robinson laughing with friends before she was found dead with a severed spine

A new video of the North Carolina woman who suffered a broken neck after being brutally beaten at a Mexican resort shows her laughing with her friends just hours before she died.

In the video shared by the Neighborhood Talk, Shanquella Robinson, 25, can be heard joking about her friends taking too long to get ready inside their Fundadores Beach Club villa. 

‘It don’t take that long to get naked. Where y’all at?’ Robinson jokes in a video of her walking around the San Jose del Cabo resort. 

The woman, who later sustained a broken neck and severed spine, walks around the Villa Linda 32 room before entering to join several women discussing what swimsuits to wear. 

Shanquella Robinson, a Charlotte resident, died while on vacation in Mexico on October 29 – a day after arriving – following a fight with one of her friends. No arrests have been made

The video, posted Friday, has racked up nearly 90,000 likes and hundreds of comments. 

Dozens of commenters have pointed to the reactions of the friends as she walks into the room as a possible sign of what was to come.   

‘They was in there talking about her! The body language tells it all,’ said one person. 

‘This story breaks my heart man. Imagine going on vacation just trying to enjoy your life and walking right into a death sentence,’ wrote one person. 

‘WOWWWWW this is sad. You can tell they had a problem with her. And probably didn’t say anything cuz she walked in recording,’ another said. 

Robinson was part of a group that traveled from Charlotte to Cabo on October 28 and rented out a villa to celebrate a friend’s birthday.

The 25-year-old was found dead a day later in their suite.

Charlotte resident Shanquella Robinson died while on vacation in Cabo, Mexico, on October 29. Video footage has surfaced of one of her friends brutally beating her in a villa

Charlotte resident Shanquella Robinson died while on vacation in Cabo, Mexico, on October 29. Video footage has surfaced of one of her friends brutally beating her in a villa

Commenters on the new video have pointed out what they believe is suspicious reactions from Shanquella's friends

Commenters on the new video have pointed out what they believe is suspicious reactions from Shanquella’s friends

'You can tell they had a problem with her' another person commented on the video

‘You can tell they had a problem with her’ another person commented on the video

Mexican officials have since confirmed they are investigating Robinson’s death as femicide, which is regional terminology for the intentional killing of a woman. 

Officials also revealed that the woman’s neck had been broken and her spine had been severed, both discovered during an autopsy. 

They will reclassify it as a homicide if they find the killing was not gender-related.

That news came after a video surfaced that appeared to show Shanquella being beaten while naked in her hotel room. The unknown assailant savagely punches and kicks her while the man recording the video taunts her.

A woman, whose name has not been released, is seen in footage attacking Shanquella Robinson at the villa they rented out for the birthday of one of their friends in Cabo, Mexico, in late October

A woman, whose name has not been released, attacks Shanquella Robinson at the villa they rented out for the birthday of one of their friends in Cabo, Mexico, in late October

Shanquella Robinson on the floor while being attacked by her friend

Shanquella Robinson on the floor while being attacked by her friend 

Robinson’s mother, Sallamondra Robinson, said her daughter’s friends initially called her and said she had died of alcohol poisoning.

‘My heart just, like, it went into pieces,’ said her mom. ‘Shanquella was my heart.’

‘Saturday evening, I got a call saying that Shanquella wasn’t feeling well,’ she said, but added that she quickly figured out there was more to the story.

‘By the time that we questioned each one of them, and each one of them gave us a different statement,’ she told GMA on Friday.

‘I did not believe them because actually before they even got back to Charlotte… someone had already called us and said that someone was fighting her over there,’ she added.

She also said Shanquella was with someone her mom knew ‘very well’ and hoped he would look out for her daughter, but ‘that’s not what it was.’

The death certificate obtained by Fox affiliate WJZY showed that Shanquella Robinson 'was found unconscious in her living room'

The death certificate obtained by Fox affiliate WJZY showed that Shanquella Robinson ‘was found unconscious in her living room’ 

Quilla Long, Shanquella’s older sister, said she ‘fell to her knees’ when she heard of the death and also said ‘the video is sickening.’

The man who appears to be filming the assault can be heard in the video taunting Robinson as he asks: ‘Can you at least fight back?’

She attempts to get away from her attacker and replies ‘no’, before the woman slams her to the floor next to the bed.

The woman then punches and knees her in the head, before yelling at her victim to ‘get up, I’m tired of the ****.’

How the Shanquella Robinson case unfolded

October 28: Robinson and friends fly from Charlotte, North Carolina to Cabo

October 29: The 25-year-old is discovered dead in their villa  

October 29: Friends tell Robinson’s parents she had alcohol poisoning 

November 10: Results of an autopsy reveal she had suffered a severed spinal cord 

November 12: Robinson’s body is flown back to North Carolina 

November 15: Video surfaces of Robinson being brutally beaten in their villa 

November 17: Officials announce they are investigating Robinson’s death as femicide 

November 18: A funeral for the woman is held at a church in Charlotte

November 18: Video surfaces of Robinson joking and laughing with friends just hours before her died 

A representative for Villa Linda 32, the property where the group was staying, told WJZY the concierge contacted a doctor who attempted to revive Robinson.

She was declared dead at 3pm local time, reportedly about 15 minutes after she was beaten.

Her mother revealed she last spoke to Shanquella the night before she was pronounced dead, when she told her daughter ‘enjoy yourself. Have a good time. And I love you and I will talk to you tomorrow.’

Shanquella’s father, Bernard Robinson, recently spoke with TMZ and told them he believes his daughter’s death was set up. 

Bernard said his daughter was not known to get in fights and that he couldn’t believe anyone would want to attack her so brutally. 

‘They attacked her, man. This ain’t like some … my daughter was asleep, man. For all them to be in that room and then, you know, they come in there like no she woke up or whatever, the way it seems like they attacked her, man,’ the grief-stricken dad told the outlet.

‘And she naked, man. You know, for a father … to see that video, man, you know, ’cause my daughter’s not a fighter, man, she’s not a fighter, not at all,’ he added.

Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving recently donated $65,000 to help pay for expenses and legal fees for Shanquella’s family. 

Shanquella’s body was flown back to Charlotte on November 17 and a funeral service was held Saturday. 

The event was attended by both loved ones and activists who were there to put ‘pressure’ on the system, according to WBTV. 

‘We came to ensure there is enough people putting pressure on the entire system to do what is necessary to get justice for this woman,’ said Tamika Mallory, an activist who attended the woman’s funeral. 

‘Losing a loved one in the heinous way in which has happened to Shanquella, there will probably never be peace for them,’ she said.

‘But there cannot just be an open situation. It has to be closed with truth and it has to be that there is accountability for those that are responsible for her death,’ Mallory added

The FBI has also stepped in on the investigation into Shanquella’s death. 

Officials with the government agency confirmed to WBTV they have ‘opened an investigation in the death of Charlotte resident, Shanquella Robinson in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on or about October 29, 2022.’ 

They said, however, that they cannot comment further due to it being an ‘ongoing investigation.’ 



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