'Daddy will get you justice': Heartbreaking moment Shanquella Robinson's dad Bernard saw her battered body
CABO, MEXICO: The father of an American tourist has disclosed the harrowing moment when he saw his daughter's body who was found dead in Mexico while on a trip with her friends. Bernard Robinson, Shanquella Robinson's dad, said that he broke down when he first saw her face after her tragic death.
“When I saw in [her] that casket, and I saw the knot … the cut on her lip, I know for a fact that they did some bodily harm to her,” Bernard said, according to The Sun. The devastated father along with 200 people gathered at a rally in North Carolina over the weekend to support the family in their search for justice. “Daddy stood there crying like a baby,” he said, according to WGMD. “I sat there and said, ‘Baby, Daddy will get you justice.’” Bernard said that in addition to the swollen and cut lip, his daughter had a large bump on her head. "They attacked her, man," Bernard said. "They attacked her."
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Shanquella was celebrating a birthday with friends while vacationing in Cabo, Mexico. According to her family, friends initially claimed that Shanquella died of alcohol poisoning, although police records and videos suggested otherwise. Shanquella's mom Salamondra said that her daughter's friends called her worried about how much Shanquella had to drink. “They said she wasn’t feeling well. She had alcohol poisoning", Salamondra said.
