Police say a 23-year-old woman was arrested a day after officers found Evelin Carolina Enamorado-Cisnado dead inside an apartment closet.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A DoorDash delivery to an east Charlotte apartment turned into a homicide investigation on March 10 after a driver reported a foul smell and officers found 26-year-old Evelin Carolina Enamorado-Cisnado dead inside a closet, police and court records say.

The case drew swift public attention because of how it began: not with a 911 call from a family member or neighbor, but with a delivery worker at an apartment on Central Avenue. By the next day, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police had arrested 23-year-old Lhis Brito-Costa, and authorities said the investigation was still active as prosecutors moved forward with a murder charge.

Police said officers were sent shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, to the 4300 block of Central Avenue for a welfare check. Inside the apartment, officers found a female victim with what police first described as life-threatening injuries and pronounced her dead at the scene. Local reporting based on court documents said the body of Enamorado-Cisnado was found in a closet, behind a door, and covered with towels. The same documents said a DoorDash driver had arrived at the residence, noticed a foul smell and alerted police after being told someone inside the apartment was dead.

By Thursday, March 12, police publicly identified the victim as Enamorado-Cisnado, 26, and said her next of kin had been notified. Investigators also announced that officers had located and arrested Brito-Costa, 23, on Wednesday, March 11. Police said she was taken to the Law Enforcement Center for an interview with homicide detectives and then transferred to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office. Court records cited by local news outlets said Brito-Costa had been in a relationship with Enamorado-Cisnado and was accused of shooting her after learning she was involved with someone else. Authorities have not publicly detailed exactly when prosecutors believe the killing happened, and police have not publicly identified who spoke to the delivery driver at the apartment.

The setting was an apartment complex in the Eastway Division, a section of Charlotte where police said crime-scene investigators, patrol officers, command staff and victim-services personnel all responded after the body was found. The details reported in court documents added a grim layer to the official account. Detectives said the body had already begun decomposing. That detail, along with the concealment of the body inside a closet and behind a door, suggested to investigators that the death had not just occurred moments before officers arrived. The victim’s relatives later said Enamorado-Cisnado was from Honduras, and family members were trying to return her body there for burial.

The legal case moved quickly at the start. Police said Brito-Costa was charged with murder, while local outlets reported the charge as first-degree murder based on court filings. A judge ordered her held without bond, according to those reports, and a next court appearance was set for April 2. Police have not publicly released a full probable-cause narrative, a possible motive statement from investigators, or a detailed autopsy timeline. The department has said only that the homicide investigation remains active and that more information would be released as it develops.

The story has also carried the shock of ordinary work crossing paths with violent crime. A food delivery driver, expecting to leave a meal at an apartment door, instead encountered a smell strong enough to raise alarm and a statement so unusual it led to a police response. Family members focused on the loss of Enamorado-Cisnado and on what they described as the pain of learning she had been killed by someone close to her. Their public remarks turned the case from a striking discovery story into a homicide with a grieving family, an identified victim and a court process already underway.

As of April 8, Brito-Costa remained the defendant in the case, Enamorado-Cisnado’s family was still publicly mourning her, and the next major milestone previously reported in the case was a court date set for April 2.

Author note: Last updated April 8, 2026.