After 25-year-olddied while vacationing in Mexico last month, the friends who were with her blamed it on alcohol poisoning.
“Initially, the investigation file was opened as a femicide,” the State Attorney General’s Office for the northwest Mexican state of Baja Sur said in an email, using the regional terminology for a certain classification of hate crime. Robinson, who ran a successful hair-braiding business in Charlotte, died late last month under mysterious circumstances while in San Jose del Cabo with six friends to celebrate one of their birthdays. The group was staying at a luxury five-bedroom villa priced at $1,600 a night and up, and decided to stay in on their first night in town.