New Police Report Shows Shanquella Robinson Was Alive When Medical Help Arrived

Newly released information from a police report says Shanquella Robinson was alive when medical help first arrived on the scene.

Shanquella Robinson police report

The report is starkly different from the previously reported death certificate that said Robinson died within 15 minutes of being injured.

The police report obtained by The Charlotte Observer, shows a doctor from a local hospital was with Robinson and others in the house for close to three hours before she was pronounced dead.

Medical help was summoned to Villa Linda 32 at 2:13 p.m. on Oct. 29. About an hour later, Dr. Karolina Beatriz Ornelas Gutiérrez, of the American Medical Center, arrived to treat Robinson, according to report excerpts.

House calls to vacation rentals for non-emergency medical services are routine in tourist hubs in Mexico, reports The Observer.

The report does not reveal who called for medical help, but the reporting person is listed as Wenter Donovan, of Greensboro. Donovan is confirmed as one of six people identified by family, friends and media sources as a person Robinson was traveling with, reports The Observer.

The police report excerpt is written in Spanish. According to a Charlotte Observer’s translation of the documentation, Dr. Gutiérrez says she was told Robinson had “drunk a lot of alcohol” and the medical call was for Robinson to “be given an IV.”

The police record indicates Gutiérrez found “a female” — understood in the report to be Robinson — with stable vital signs but dehydrated, unable to communicate verbally and appearing to be inebriated.

The doctor reported that she believed Robinson needed to be transferred to a hospital but her friends insisted that she be treated in the villa. Dr. Gutiérrez attempted an IV but was unsuccessful, according to the report excerpt. It’s unclear what medication was in the IV.

The doctor was there for approximately an hour when Robinson began having a seizure. The convulsions from the seizure lasted less than a minute, according to the report.

“At this point the patient’s friend, named Wenter Donovan, called 911 to request an ambulance,” according to the Observer’s Spanish to English translation of the report. This was around 4:20 p.m.

“In the meantime, the patient presented with difficulty breathing and a lowered pulse, and they gave her rescue breaths.”

The doctor, along with a friend, began administering CPR at 4:49 p.m. when Gutierrez detected Robinson had stopped having a pulse.

Police arrived and talked with the doctor who was treating Robinson at 5:25 p.m. It’s unclear from the information in the police report exactly what time an ambulance arrived from the 911 call.

The report indicates paramedics “administered a total of 14 rounds of CPR, five doses of adrenaline and six discharges (AED shocks) without success.”

Unable to revive Robinson, Gutierrez “declared her dead at 5:57 p.m.,” according to the report excerpt.

The police report lists “deceased person (cardiopulmonary arrest)“ as the reasoning why police were called.

What happened to Shanquella Robinson?

On Oct. 28, Robinson, 25, left Charlotte, North Carolina to go on a trip with friends to Cabo, Mexico. A day later, she was dead.

Sallamondra Robinson, Shanquella’s mother, told various news outlets that each friend from the trip had different stories and they initially told her that her daughter had died from alcohol poisoning.

As we previously reported, official autopsy reports contradicted their statements, listing the cause of death as “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation.”

Investigation

Mexican authorities are investigating Robinson’s death as a possible femicide, the State Attorney General’s Office of Baja California Sur announced in a statement Thursday, according to ABC News.

Femicide is considered a hate crime in which a girl or woman is killed because of their gender.

The FBI has also opened up an investigation into Robinson’s death, the agency confirmed in a statement to various media outlets.

A video of a fight has gone viral and Robinson’s mother told CBS News she recognizes her daughter in the footage.

The footage shows a naked woman, barely verbal, being brutally hit and punched in the face multiple times by another woman until she falls to the ground. A person not seen in the video is heard saying “Quella can you at least fight back?” The FBI says they are aware of  the video.

The fight for justice

The family continues to seek answers into Shanquella’s death and have started a GoFundMe to raise money for legal fees.

“The United States State Department released a statement claiming “no clear evidence of foul play,” yet there is a video circulating of a woman violently attacking Shanquella,” the GoFundMe read. “This statement is unacceptable, and we are beyond devastated. We continue to fight for the truth.”

As of Monday afternoon, the page had raised $366,305, exceeding its $350,000 goal. This included a $65,000 donation from Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving.

Robinson’s life was celebrated on Nov. 19 in her native of Charlotte.