2026年4月16日 / 美国东部时间早上6:31 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
桑给巴尔警方目前拘留了一名美国公民，其伴侣在两人入住的酒店内发生争执后离奇死亡。
45岁的约瑟夫·艾萨克·麦凯恩于周一接受了警方问询，此时距其伴侣阿什莉·罗宾逊——网络上更广为人知的名字是阿什莉·吉娜——被发现死于酒店房间已有四天。
调查人员表示，他们暂时扣留了麦凯恩的护照，以待尸检结果出炉。当地当局此前曾向媒体透露，麦凯恩暂未被怀疑存在不当行为。
桑给巴尔调查副局长祖贝里·钱贝拉周四拒绝就此置评，表示调查仍在进行中。
警方称，据目击者证词，这对情侣于4月4日抵达桑给巴尔的祖里酒店，之后频繁发生争吵，直到4月8日晚，酒店管理层将两人分开，要求麦凯恩搬到步行约10分钟可达的另一栋别墅。
数小时后，一名酒店工作人员在衣橱内发现罗宾逊失去意识，其脖子上缠着一条皮带，警方表示。她被送往医院，次日不治身亡。
罗宾逊的家人告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他们希望案件能保持透明，并补充说，女儿在去世前几天看起来心情愉悦。
“他们当时在非洲一处绝美之地，过得很开心，”她的母亲约兰达·恩德雷斯说道，“我们所了解的一切都表明她本该很幸福。她当时订婚了，之后还过了生日，然后她就这么突然离开了。”
家人表示，他们最初得知情况不对是因为麦凯恩来电称罗宾逊住院了，但细节寥寥无几。
“我问他事发时间和地点，他说距离他联系我时已经过去11个小时了，”恩德雷斯说道。
随后联络便中断了。家人称，他们之后收到的消息来自酒店，对方告知他们女儿已经离世。
“未婚夫根本没联系过我们，我们是从酒店得知消息的，”哈里·罗宾逊说道，“女儿远在地球另一端，这太令人崩溃了。我们只想知道她当时在哪里、和谁在一起，以及她是否安好。哪怕给我们一点消息也好。”
罗宾逊的母亲告诉媒体，在女儿被紧急送往医院的数小时前，她和麦凯恩 reportedly 发生了争执，导致酒店工作人员将他们安排到了不同房间。
“度假酒店到处都有摄像头，这能佐证时间线，”哈里·罗宾逊说道，“请彻查此案，然后告知我们结果。”
美国国务院表示正在关注此案。
杰丽卡·邓肯和罗斯·迪马泰对本文亦有贡献。
Partner held in Zanzibar after American influencer Ashly Robinson dies under mysterious circumstances
April 16, 2026 / 6:31 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Police in Zanzibar are holding an American citizen whose partner died under mysterious circumstances following a dispute at the hotel where they were staying.
Joseph Isaac McCann, 45, was questioned by police on Monday, four days after his partner, Ashly Robinson, better known online as Ashlee Jenae, was found dead in her room.
Investigators said they are holding McCann’s passport until autopsy results are complete. Authorities previously told local media that he was not suspected of wrongdoing.
The Deputy Director of Investigations in Zanzibar, Zuberi Chembera, refused to comment on Thursday, saying that investigations were ongoing.
Police said witness accounts indicate that the couple arrived at Zuri Hotel in Zanzibar on April 4 and had been quarreling frequently until the night of April 8, when hotel management separated them and asked McCann to move to a separate villa about a 10-minute walk away.
A few hours later, a hotel worker found Robinson unresponsive in a closet, with a belt around her neck, police said. She was taken to a hospital, where she died the following day.
Her family told CBS News that they are seeking transparency, adding that their daughter appeared happy in the days leading up to her death.
“They were in a gorgeous place in Africa and happy,” her mother, Yolanda Endres, said. “Everything that we knew was that she was supposed to be happy. She was engaged, she celebrated her birthday thereafter, and then she’s just gone.”
The family said they first learned something was wrong when McCann called to say Robinson was in the hospital, but details were limited.
“I asked him when it happened and where it happened, and he told me that something had occurred 11 hours prior to when he was reaching out to me,” Endres said.
They said communication then stopped. The next update, they said, came from the hotel, which informed them their daughter had died.
“The fiancé did not reach out to us at all. We found out from the hotel,” Harry Robinson said. “That’s devastating when your daughter’s halfway around the world. We just wanted to know where she was at, who she was with, and that she was OK. Just give us something.”
Robinson’s mother told news outlets that hours before her daughter was rushed to the hospital, she and McCann reportedly had an argument that led hotel staff to move them into separate rooms.
“There’s cameras everywhere at a resort and that will match the timeline,” Harry Robinson said. “Just do the investigation and let us know.”
The State Department says it’s monitoring the case.
Jericka Duncan and Ross DiMattei contributed to this report.
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