Shanquella Robinson Death: Family Demands Action in Letter to President Biden

The family of Shanquella Robinson, a North Carolina resident who died in Mexico last fall, has demanded that President Biden extradite her friend on the grounds that he is wanted by Mexican authorities in connection with her mysterious death.

Robinson's family wrote the letter on Monday and addressed it to Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and other diplomats, pleading with them to get involved in the probe into her death.

Shanquella Robinson was murdered on Oct. 29 last year while on vacation with her friends in Cabo, sparking a viral investigation into whether her friends had been responsible.

"The President or the Secretary of State must step in and ask: for the extradition of the suspect" or prosecute the case stateside, the letter from the family's attorneys said, according to the Root.

An unnamed American citizen who was a "direct aggressor" in a video of Robinson being savagely beaten before she was discovered dead at the villa, she was sharing with friends was the subject of an arrest order issued by the Mexican government.

There hasn't been an arrest in the case, despite claims by the police that they are collaborating with U.S. authorities on the extradition.

Although Daejhanae Jackson has not been named as a suspect by police, Robinson's family's lawyers claimed in a letter to the Biden administration that a witness recognized the assailant in the video as such.

Details from Robinson's autopsy and previously undisclosed prosecutor and police notes were also included in the 18-page letter.

"We don't want to leave any room for the administration to say, 'We don't know about the case, we didn't have the details, we didn't understand what the family asks is,'" attorney Sue-Ann Robinson, who is not related to the victim, told news station WBTV.

"Because we need a high level of diplomatic intervention, we sent the correspondence to the highest diplomats in our country."

The apparent lack of procedure in the investigation into Shanquella Robinson's death was also contrasted by Sue-Ann Robinson and Ben Crump, two other attorneys, with the hasty reaction to the kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros earlier this month.

"The FBI's response [to the kidnapping] demonstrates that the U.S. authorities and the federal police agencies are not doing all that they could do in Shanquella's case," Sue-Ann Robinson previously told Yahoo News, referring to the speedy location of the kidnapped friends and the arrest of at least five suspects, reports New York Post.

"Obviously [US officials] know how to have that high level of intervention with the appropriate Mexican authorities, because they did it immediately [for the recently kidnapped Americans]," she continued.

Although it is unknown if this is where the two ladies met, Jackson reportedly attended Winston-Salem State University, the alma mater of Shanquella Robinson.

Together with five other companions, they took the trip to Mexico. Jackson was allegedly one of the three people who returned Shanquella Robinson's belongings to her family after her passing and informed Robinson's mother that she had died from alcohol poisoning.

However, a subsequent autopsy determined that Shanquella Robinson's death was partially caused by atlas dislocation, which indicated that the top of her spine was separated from her skull.

Jackson "manipulated" a resort employee, according to the lawyers' statement, in order to depart Mexico as soon as possible after the incident.

Jackson and the rest of the group, who are now referred to as the "Cabo 6," subsequently left the country just one day after their friend was declared dead, New York Post reported.

Late last month, supporters of Shanquella Robinson and local activists marched and participated in a march in Charlotte to demand action in the case.

"The significance of it is to put pressure on Mexico because they're not owning up to their responsibility and executing the warrants of the 'Cabo Six,'" organizer Marcus Black said.