{"id":67003,"date":"2026-02-24T02:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/family-of-anna-kepner-says-stepbrother-charged-with-homicide-in-her-death-on-cruise-ship-court-document-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:56:11","slug":"family-of-anna-kepner-says-stepbrother-charged-with-homicide-in-her-death-on-cruise-ship-court-document-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/family-of-anna-kepner-says-stepbrother-charged-with-homicide-in-her-death-on-cruise-ship-court-document-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Anna Kepner says stepbrother charged with homicide in her death on cruise ship, court document shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A 16-year-old stepbrother of\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fbi-probing-stepsibling-carnival-cruise-ship-death-florida-teen-anna-kepner\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Anna Kepner<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has been charged with homicide as a minor in the death of the Florida teen, who was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/carnival-cruise-horizon-death-investigation-miami-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">found dead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0aboard a Carnival cruise ship during a family vacation in November, according to court documents obtained by CBS News, which cited the Kepner family&#8217;s social media.<\/p>\n<p>In an emergency filing, dated Feb. 20, attorneys for Thomas Hudson, the stepbrother&#8217;s father, wrote: &#8220;According to social media from the Kepner family, on February 3, 2026, the Petitioner\/Father&#8217;s son, TH, was charged by the United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida for the [redacted] and homicide of Anna Kepner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The filing is part of an ongoing custody dispute between Hudson and Shauntel Kepner, the parents of Anna Kepner&#8217;s stepbrother.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of Florida and the FBI have not commented on developments in the Kepner case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, CBS News has learned there is an ongoing case against the teen that is currently under seal and being overseen by Miami federal judge Beth Bloom.<\/p>\n<p>The stepbrother, who CBS News is not naming because he is a minor, appeared in federal court in Miami on Feb. 6, for a hearing but because the case is under seal media was not allowed in the courtroom<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s a juvenile you won&#8217;t know until he&#8217;s charged as an adult,&#8221; Dave Aronberg, a former Palm Beach state attorney, told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aronberg, federal charges against a minor are typically under seal because there are vast protections for minors under federal law. An indictment could be unsealed if the person is later charged as an adult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anna Kepner, 18, was on a Caribbean cruise with her father, stepmother and three stepsiblings on the Carnival Horizon. Law enforcement sources previously told CBS News that she died on Nov. 7 and her body was found by a housekeeper under the bed in her stateroom. The ship returned to Miami on Nov. 8.According to family members, she had told them the night before that she wasn&#8217;t feeling well and returned to her room. When she didn&#8217;t show up for breakfast the next morning, a frantic search began.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI had been investigating Kepner&#8217;s 16-year-old stepbrother for possible involvement in her death,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fbi-probing-stepsibling-carnival-cruise-ship-death-florida-teen-anna-kepner\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News previously reported<\/a><\/span>. A law enforcement source said investigators believe Kepner may have been strangled during an altercation, and that the suspect may have been using alcohol.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an open investigation regarding [Kepner&#8217;s] death\u2026 and T.H. [a stepbrother] is a suspect regarding this death which occurred recently on a cruise ship,&#8221; Shauntel Hudson said in a Nov. 18 court filing in the custody dispute in Brevard County, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>That filing was in response to another filing entered by Hudson&#8217;s ex-husband a day earlier, which also asserted the 16-year-old is a suspect. CBS News reached out to Hudson and her attorneys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI had not publicly named anyone as a suspect in this case. The agency said in a statement that it does not provide operational updates on its investigations except in rare circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Carnival Cruise Line previously told CBS News that it&#8217;s cooperating with the federal investigation. 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