By
The Associated Press
Prosecutors in Mexico have filed charges against an American woman suspected of killing a tourist from North Carolina while on vacation in Mexico with friends.
The Baja California Sur State Prosecutor's Office did not identify the suspect in the death of Shanquella Robinson, which occurred on October 29.
Robinson was seen in a viral video posted online, recorded on a cell phone, being savagely beaten in a room.
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The Baja California Sur authorities indicated that they have approached federal prosecutors and Mexican diplomats to request that the suspect be extradited and that she face the charges against her in Mexico.
Shanquella Robinson. Facebook
Robinson's death at a resort in San José del Cabo shocked Mexico and the United States alike.
The video raised
suspicions that Robinson may have been killed by the people he was traveling with.
Prosecutor Antonio López Rodríguez said that the case is being investigated as a possible homicide and that an arrest warrant has been issued for the suspect.
The group that Robinson was traveling with had left Mexico after the discovery of the body in a rented farm.
State Attorney Daniel de la Rosa Anaya said the suspect was also an American, but did not identify her.
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According to media outlets in Charlotte, North Carolina, the people with whom Robinson was traveling gave different versions of his death.
Bernard Robinson, 58, said his daughter's friends told him she had died of alcohol poisoning, but he said he is not convinced of that.
When his body arrived in the United States, he claimed, he had bruises on his face.
“I cried like a baby.
When I opened the box and saw her there.
He had a lump in the corner of his head, a cut lip and a swollen eye,” she claimed.
"In my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't alcohol poisoning."
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An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be a severe spinal cord or neck injury.
“That took things to another level because it meant that someone had attacked her,” her father said.
“She was my only daughter.
She loved her and I can't believe someone would hurt her like that
.
The joy has gone"
“I can't even be a grandfather.
I can't even walk her down the aisle.
I can't even hear her voice,” she said.
"I will not let my daughter die in vain."
A video apparently filmed in the luxurious residence in San José del Cabo shows a woman beating another.
The person attacked has been identified as Shanquella Robinson.
The video has been posted multiple times on social media.
In it, a man with an American accent is heard saying, “Could you at least defend yourself?”
The man apparently did not intervene in the beating.
