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Updated on 12/5/22 at 11:58 a.m: Daniel de la Rosa Anaya—the attorney general for Mexico’s Baja California Sur where Shanquella Robinson died—confirmed to media outlets that Robinson’s death will be investigated as a femicide.
Femicide is a kind of gender-based violence that is recognized as a hate crime globally.
From 2015 to 2019, femicide cases in Mexico increased 145 percent. Currently, the United States does not track femicide.
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Robinson, who was just 25 years old, died on Oct. 29 while vacationing with six of her friends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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The arrest warrant also comes on the heels of a viral video of a woman, who is believed to be Robinson, being beaten by another woman traveling in the group.
During the altercation, one of the people filming it asked Robinson if she could “at least fight back?” Robinson’s friends first told her mother that she had died of alcohol poisoning.
However, an autopsy revealed that Robinson’s cause of death as severe spinal cord injury as well as a dislocated neck.
Mexican prosecutors called her death as “a direct attack, not an accident.”
A month after Robinson’s passing, the FBI has decided to get involved.
He also stated that an arrest warrant had been issued for the suspect.
The group of friends that Robinson was traveling with wound up leaving Mexico after she was found dead in their rented villa.
Upon hearing the news of an arrest warrant being issued, Robinson’s mother, Salamondra Robinson, told ABC News: “I feel so good, that’s a good feeling.
That’s what we have been waiting for, for someone to finally be held accountable and arrested. I just can’t wait for justice to be served.