White continued to see him, although red flags kept popping up, especially in bed. White said Robinson tried to tie her up, hold her arms back and grab her neck, choking her. She told People she stopped sleeping with Robinson after that, and that during the sexual encounter she’d heard voices telling her, “You're sleeping with the enemy.”
During that first visit, Robinson suggested moving in with White, later telling her he’d bought a one-way bus ticket to see her. She immediately nixed the cohabitation idea, telling him, “‘No. You're moving too fast, man,’” per People.
At a birthday party for White in February 2021, Robinson reportedly drank excessively and made inappropriate sexual comments toward partygoers. White told the Washington Post that she confronted Robinson about the comments and whether he had an interest in men, to which he reportedly confessed that he did. White said she felt blindsided by the admission, causing her to distrust him for keeping secrets.
Robinson also allegedly peed in White’s bed on her birthday, she told People. After the birthday drama, White told Robinson she didn’t want to see him anymore. White believes the breakup may have prompted Robinson to snap and, potentially, begin his killing spree. She told People that, months after she ended the relationship, she glimpsed him standing outside a motel room looking very disheveled, like “a ghost, a monster.”
Not many details have been released about Robinson himself. According to the Washington Post, he moved around a lot and worked a series of jobs. His family failed to speak with the media and his lawyer declined to comment to The Washington Post. However, the publication learned that, in the wake of the killings, police were investigating the 2018 death of a woman who’d previously been engaged to marry Robinson: Skye Allen, then 30. Allen died on Valentine’s Day 2018 after her mother reportedly found her “barely breathing” in the room she shared with Robinson. Allen died soon after being rushed to the hospital.
In a statement, the Prince George’s County Police Department told the Washington Post that it had not originally investigated Allen’s death because it occurred at a hospital and had not seemed suspicious. “Our agency was not notified of her passing, which occurred at a hospital, and therefore had no involvement in documenting any aspect of her death,” the statement read. “She was cremated following her death. In January of 2022, a PGPD Homicide supervisor did speak to Ms. Allen’s relatives. Based on those conversations, the PGPD’s Cold Case Unit is reviewing the facts surrounding her death.”
The "Shopping Cart Killer" is suspected in the deaths of multiple women in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C., though he was only convicted of the murders of two women: Allene Redmon and Tonita Smith. Investigators say the two women likely died in 2021, sometime between October 24 and November 14. Police arrested Robinson on November 23, 2021, after the women’s remains were discovered together in a vacant lot in Harrisonburg, Va., near a shopping cart. Police believe Robinson met the women on dating sites and lured them to hotels before murdering them and dumping their bodies. It’s unclear how they were killed. Surveillance video and cellphone records allegedly linked Robinson to both victims and led to his arrest.
In January 2025, Robinson was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of concealing a body and two counts of aggravated murder in Redmon and Smith’s deaths. Robinson is still under investigation for the deaths of Allen, Cheyenne Brown, Sonya Champ and Stephanie Harrison. D.C. police are also investigating Robinson is connection with the killing of 40-year-old Sonya Champ, whose body was found in a shopping cart near the city’s Union Station in September 2021. Three months later, Virginia’s Fairfax County police announced they were investigating Robinson’s involvement with the slayings of 29-year-old Cheyenne Brown and an unknown victim, later identified as 48-year-old Stephanie Harrison. Both women’s remains were found in a plastic container in a wooded area near a shopping cart in northern Virginia.
Brown, 29, was last seen on a bus near her D.C. home and was pregnant when she was killed. Champ, 40, also of DC, was found dead in a shopping cart on F Street NE. The remains of Harrison, a tourist from California, were found on December 15, 2021, in a plastic container near a shopping cart adjacent to Moon Inn in Alexandria, Va. Her remains were found alongside the body of Brown.
After learning about Robinson and the murders, White told The Washington Post she’d been unable to date and had fallen into a “depression.” When a relative showed her an article about the murders and Robinson being dubbed a potential serial killer, White told the publication there was “all kinds of emotion flooding my head.”
