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'Daddy will get you justice': Heartbreaking moment Shanquella Robinson's dad Bernard saw her battered body

Bernard Robinson recalled, 'daddy stood there crying like a baby', he further revealed that he 'sat there' and said 'baby, daddy will get you justice'

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. 

However, the family later revealed that Shanquella's autopsy stated that the vacationer died of a broken neck and cracked spine, not alcohol poisoning. A video went viral on social media which showed Shanquella in an altercation with another woman, according to the family. Someone yells at her to fight back in the video. "Can you at least fight back," someone can be heard yelling.

"It was never a fight. She didn't fight. They attacked her," Salamondra said. "She was really having a nice time, and I don't know where it went wrong from there." Since the 25-year-old's death on October 29, the family has been struggling to find answers. “I couldn’t confront them really, because they were gone", Salamondra told Independent of the group her daughter was with. “I did talk to police. I didn’t talk to the other ones [again] because I didn’t see them anymore. They came [to our home] before the autopsy came."

Last month, Mexican law enforcement said that were investigating Shanquella’s death as feminicide. A warrant has been issued for one person who was on the trip with Shanquella. “All I want is justice,” Bernard said. “I just want the Mexican authorities, the embassy, to do the right thing, make it right. Because they came over there on your soil and did what they did and came back here.”

The parents continue to struggle to find answers related to her death until the police release more information. "I said, ‘OK, I love you. Have a good night, and I will talk to you tomorrow,’" Salamondra said of her last conversation with her daughter. "I never talked to my child again. She never made it back home." “That’s what my plan was - she’ll bury me, not me burying her," Bernard said.

FBI’s Charlotte office said on Wednesday, December 14, that the investigation into Shanquella's death is ongoing.