Attorney to meet with US on Shanquella Robinson case

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Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump confirmed he'll meet with federal officials and lawmakers to discuss U.S. intervention in the Shanquella Robinson murder case. Robinson, a Charlotte resident, was killed in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico on Oct. 29, 2022.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump confirmed Thursday that he’s scheduled meetings with the White House and federal officials to demand they intervene in the Shanquella Robinson murder case.

Crump, the keynote speaker at a bail reform and policing conference at Livingstone College, said he plans to meet with Biden administration officials after April 1 to seek U.S. participation in bringing the Charlotte woman’s killer or killers to justice. Robinson, 25, died in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico on Oct. 29, 2022, and public details surrounding her death have been limited.

An autopsy performed in Mexico showed the cause of death was a broken neck and a video that’s gone viral showed Robinson being assaulted by a friend who traveled to Mexico.

“We’re asking them to do one or two things,” Crump said in a video posted on Livingstone's YouTube channel, “and that was either to extradite the killers of Shanquella Robison because there’s an outstanding warrant by the Mexican government based on the evidence, not just on the video, but as evidence of autopsy that her neck was broke. That was the cause of death. … Or to accept the concurrent jurisdiction that the Mexican government has offered America to come and have a federal prosecutor prosecute the killers of Shanquella Robinson.”

Crump, who is representing the Robinson family, and community activists wants the U.S. to extradite or arrest the people responsible for her death. Mexican prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the suspect, who is a U.S. citizen.

“We have a process in place to extradite people who have come to America from Mexico, from Mexico, and from all over the world to seek a better life,” said Dawn Blagrove, executive director of Emancipate NC. “Why can we not employ those same resources and those same processes to ensure that people who are a danger to folks in the communities that they live in, in Charlotte, as they walk the streets freely, where we’ve seen them on a video brutally murder their friend? Why is it so difficult for us to get them to Mexico?”

Sallamondra Robinson, Shanquella’s mother, said her daughter didn’t deserve to be murdered and the family wants justice.

“Shanquella was a great daughter,” the elder Robinson said. “She was a great friend. She loved people, and I don’t know how [anyone] could have done this to her. It’s just terrible if they had a heart. They didn’t even have a heart to do her like that. She would give you to shirt off her back. She was a kind child. She [grew] up to be loveable and they did her like this.”

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