Shanquella Robinson's death is officially being investigated by Mexican authorities as a femicide — a form of gender-based violence that's seen as a hate crime internationally.
The action from both U.S. and Mexican authorities did not come until weeks after Robinson's death on Oct. 29. The 25-year-old American from Charlotte, N.C., traveled to San José del Cabo with several friends the day prior. Robinson's friends originally told her family that she died from alcohol poisoning, which ran counter to a death certificate obtained from Charlotte television station,"During this trip, she was found dead.
Then, a video of a woman physically fighting Robinson spread throughout social media. Her mother, Sallamondra Robinson, identified her daughter in the video to WSOC-TV. "It was never a fight. She didn't fight," Sallamondra Robinson told the television station."They attacked her." Because femicide is not tracked in the U.S., there are few reliable statistics on such gender-based homicides —
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