She was 19 and pregnant when she was murdered. Police made an arrest 6 years later.

Ondrea Japonica Stevenson was 19 and pregnant when bullets were fired into a Charlotte apartment in 2013, killing her and her unborn child, police said.

On Thursday, police announced an arrest in the case.

The 33-year-old suspect, Carlos Delonte Knox, was arrested on Wednesday without incident and charged with first-degree murder, murder of an unborn child, and possession of a firearm by a felon, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department news release.

Police aren’t saying what evidence led them to Knox.

Stevenson was asleep on a couch when multiple bullets were fired through a window of the apartment, The Charlotte Observer reported at the time, citing Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. She was the only person in the room, although four other women and three children were also in the apartment, the Observer reported.

Stevenson’s boyfriend might have been the intended target but wasn’t at the apartment, Observer news partner WBTV reported at the time.

The apartment was in the 5700 block of Leake Street, off West Boulevard near Charlotte’s airport. The apartment was in the Little Rock Apartments complex, in an area plagued for decades by violent crime, the Observer reported at the time.

Stevenson had just graduated from Independence High School and was studying criminal justice at Shaw University, according to WBTV.

A friend at the scene of the shooting described Stevenson “as a gregarious, funny young woman, who often tried to cheer up those close to her,” according to the Observer’s 2013 article. “That’s what made me keep her close. ... She was always looking out for everybody, trying to make them smile.”

This story was originally published March 28, 2019 at 2:04 PM.