Friend tied to Shanquella Robinson death in Cabo responds to lawsuit with changed name
Daejhanae Jackson, who is tied to the mysterious Mexico death of Charlotte native Shanquella Robinson, has changed her name, according to a new court filing.
Robinson took a trip to Cabo with six friends when she was 25 in October 2022. She died on day one.
Lawyer Sue-Ann Robinson, who is not related to the family, previously said police were investigating the death as a murder — and they had a suspect. Nearly three years later, lawsuits have been filed, but no arrests have been made as public outcry continues over how U.S. officials have handled the case.
After Robinson died, her friends took her luggage back to the United States and they told her mother that Robinson died of alcohol poisoning. But police reports, an autopsy and video circulated on social media challenge that story. And her friends, according to a lawsuit, “conceal[ed] information and evidence.”
Robinson died of a broken neck, according to the autopsy report. Police reports say a doctor who spent hours with Robinson inside the friends’ villa after they called for help with potential alcohol poisoning repeatedly told them to call an ambulance. They refused, the report says, until it was too late.
And video taken by one of Robinson’s travel mates shows one friend hitting a naked, inebriated Robinson over the head the day she died.
That friend was E’Mani Green, formerly known as Daejhanae Jackson, according to court records in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
Robinson’s mother, Sallamondra Robinson, in October 2024 filed a lawsuit in Mecklenburg Superior Court against the FBI, the U.S. Department of State and Robinson’s friends. Court records indicate Green was electronically served twice — once in December 2024 and again this January — before responding through a typed, mailed letter Wednesday.
Shanquella Robinson death lawsuit
In the complaint, Sallamondra Robinson alleges the FBI and the State Department did not properly investigate her daughter’s death. She is also suing the friends — known as the “Cabo Six” — for wrongful death, neglect, emotional distress and civil conspiracy.
The friends “concealed critical information from medical staff and law enforcement in Mexico in order to evade culpability for Shanquella’s death” by returning to the United States, attorney Sue-Ann Robinson alleges in the complaint.
The case was originally filed in Mecklenburg Superior Court but later moved to Charlotte’s federal court.
Green was the second to last friend to respond to the complaint. Khalil Cooke, Nazeer Tyree Wiggins and Alysse Hyatt were served in December 2024, and Wenter Donovan was served in January. One friend, Malik Dyer is now the only person who has not responded to the lawsuit, according to court records.
FBI sued in Cabo death investigation
The FBI, through former U.S. Attorney Dena King and her successor, Russ Ferguson, has asked to be dismissed from the case. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. heard lawyers’ arguments for and against the agencies’ removals on May 14 but has not yet ruled.
This story was originally published May 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM with the headline "Friend tied to Shanquella Robinson death in Cabo responds to lawsuit with changed name."
