Maria Eduvigig Echeverria de Gomez, 36, was shot and killed on April 3, 2018, in the parking lot of Vista Village apartments in the 6200 block of Barrington Drive in east Charlotte. She was waiting for her brother, Angel Echeverria, to pick her up for work when an armed robbery occurred; her brother witnessed the shooting. She was taken to Carolinas Medical Center but was unresponsive and pronounced dead.

Investigators arrested multiple suspects. A 15-year-old male was arrested and charged with murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon and was held in a juvenile detention facility. Antonio Darnell Shine, 19, and A vone Williams, 17, were arrested and charged with the same offenses and transferred to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office. A fourth teenager, 16-year-old Ziaya Chanel Jackson, later turned herself in and faced murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon charges. Authorities said the robbery had been planned and that it led to Echeverria de Gomez’s fatal shooting.

Echeverria de Gomez had moved to the United States less than a year before her death and was employed in landscaping. Her husband, Nano Gomez, described the family as devastated by the loss. Does anyone have information about the incident or knew Maria and her routine in that neighborhood?