Missing Everett woman, 23, found dead in Somerville

Charline Rosemond was found in a parked car on Webster Avenue at 6:30, police said. The office of the chief medical examiner conducted an autopsy yesterday and ruled the death a homicide caused by a single gunshot wound to the head, the district attorney's office said.

Police believe the car, a gray 2001 Honda Civic, is the one Rosemond drove to work April 7 at the Herb Chambers car dealership in Brighton, where she was employed the past four years.

Rosemond went to work that day with $4,000 in cash to buy a vehicle, said her 21-year-old sister, Roserlie Rosemond.

When she did not return from work to the home she shared with her sister, mother, and father, family members reported her missing to Everett police the following morning.

"The first day was a big shock, but as more time went by, we pretty much knew nothing good was going to come out of this," Roserlie Rosemond said. "But we still had hope. Every time we looked out the window, [we hoped] that she'd be coming home."

No arrests have been made, but the death is being investigated, said Corey Welford, a spokesman for Middlesex District Attorney Gerry T. Leone Jr.

A close-knit family, the Rosemonds said they had no reason to believe she would run away from home, and they wonder why or whether she was targeted.

Charline Rosemond graduated from Gibbs College in Boston in 2006 with a degree in accounting.

She had a keen interest in cosmetology and fashion, relatives said.