Shanquella Robinson‘s family, their attorney and civil rights activists will travel to Washington, D.C, to call on President Joe Biden and federal officials for diplomatic intervention into her murder case on Friday.
It has been four months since Robinson, a North Carolina business owner, died on a weekend trip with friends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
An attorney representing her family, Sue-Ann Robinson, told Atlanta Black Star the family has been met with a lack of transparency from American authorities in a case already complicated by geopolitics.
“There has to be a high level of diplomatic and intervention, and it has to really be the highest level possible,” the attorney told Atlanta Black Star during a phone interview on Tuesday.
Video footage leaked from the Mexican villa Shanquella shared with six friends in late October showed she was a victim of a brutal assault. Shortly after her death, the group returned to the U.S., leaving her body behind.
Mexican authorities have issued an arrest warrant for one of the people on the trip for femicide — the death of a woman based on her gender. However, the attorney said the U.S. government has stonewalled the family.
Robinson said Shanquella has not been able to get any information from U.S. authorities. In late November, the FBI’s Charlotte office confirmed that it would open an investigation into the case. Still, the family has not even been able to get a timeline even though Mexican authorities say they have completed the investigation and submitted an extradition request.
However, the family has been stuck in between a “ping-pong,” according to the prominent attorney, who took a recent trip to Cabo to retrace Shanquella’s steps.
“U.S. authorities are saying you need to go to Mexico. Mexican authorities, prior to us actually physically being on the ground in Mexico, we’re advising that the family needed to go to U.S. authorities,” Robinson said.
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