{"id":55192,"date":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55192\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:21:14","slug":"anna-kepner-who-died-on-carnival-cruise-fought-for-her-life-as-family-demands-stepbrother-be-charged-for-her-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55192\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Kepner who died on Carnival cruise ‘fought for her life’ as family demands stepbrother be charged for her murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader who was killed in the cabin of a cruise ship she shared with her stepbrother \u201cfought for her life,\u201d according to a relative<\/a> \u2014 who on Friday demanded that the boy be charged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Anna fought. I know she fought for her life, so it\u2019s rough. It\u2019s rough,\u201d Anna Kepner\u2019s aunt, Krystal Wright<\/a>, told FOX 35 Orlando.<\/p>\n

\"AnnaRelatives of Anna Kepner \u2014 the 18-year-old Florida cheerleader who was killed the cabin of a cruise ship she shared with her stepbrother \u201cfought for her life\u201d \u2014 demanded that the boy be charged. Instagram\/@anna.kepner16<\/p>\n

Wright is frustrated that there\u2019s been no arrest following Kepner\u2019s mysterious death, which was ruled a homicide.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t understand why, if the boy is a suspect, why has he not been charged yet? What\u2019s happening there?\u201d Wright fumed. \u201cIt\u2019s turmoil. We\u2019re just sitting here waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the latest on Anna Kepner, cheerleader found dead on Carnival Cruise<\/p>\n

\"Anna\u201cWe don\u2019t understand why, if the boy is a suspect, why has he not been charged yet? What\u2019s happening there?\u201d Kepner\u2019s aunt Krystal Wright said. Instagram\/@anna.kepner16<\/p>\n

The tragic teen\u2019s death was ruled a homicide by \u201cmechanical asphyxiation,\u201d after her body was found on Nov. 7 while vacationing with her family, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Kepner was stashed under her cabin bed, wrapped in a blanket <\/a>covered by life vests \u2014 and Anna\u2019s father, Christopher Kepner, has said he wants his stepson<\/a> charged if he\u2019s responsible for her death.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement have yet to announce a suspect or person of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader who was killed in the cabin of a cruise ship she shared with her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25246,16004,1015,5970,24224,3640,19085,238,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-55192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-carnival","9":"tag-cruises","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-fbi","12":"tag-fbi-investigations","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-investigations","15":"tag-murders","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}