What the U.S. autopsy of Shanquella Robinson says about alcohol, her injuries

BY KALLIE COX APRIL 19, 2023 4:35 PM

Lab officials in Mexico told a Charlotte-based doctor performing a new autopsy on Shanquella Robinson that no alcohol was found in the 25-year-old woman’s blood, tested after her death. This latest autopsy was ordered by the FBI the month after Robinson’s death. The findings from this autopsy led the Department of Justice to announce earlier this month that it will not pursue criminal charges in her case. Robinson, a Charlotte native, died under suspicious circumstances in Cabo, Mexico on Oct. 29. Her death has been investigated as a possible homicide. She was on a trip with six other people, some of whom told her mother Robinson died of alcohol poisoning.

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The U.S. autopsy — obtained this week via a public records request by The Charlotte Observer — was conducted by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and includes findings from Mexico’s toxicology screening. The secondary autopsy in the U.S. revealed a major discrepancy with the findings in an autopsy performed during Mexican authorities’ investigation. As The Charlotte Observer has reported previously, Mexico’s autopsy concluded Robinson died of “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation.”

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