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A 16-year-old boy being investigated in the death of his stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship last month has no memory of what happened, according to text messages exchanged between his parents filed in a custody court case in Florida.
According to court documents obtained this week by local media in Central Florida, the boy’s mother told her ex-husband that the teen repeatedly asked if he could remember anything.
Anna Kepner’s death was ruled a homicide. His death has attracted international attention and intense speculation on social media.
Kepner’s cause of death was “mechanical asphyxia”, according to a copy of his death certificate that was obtained ABC NewsWhich said the 18-year-old was “mechanically suffocated by other persons.”
Mechanical asphyxia occurs when an object or physical force prevents someone from breathing.
Kepner, a high school cheerleader from Florida’s Space Coast who was set to graduate next year, was traveling on the Carnival Horizon ship with her father, grandparents, stepmother and her stepmother’s two children, including a 16-year-old boy.
Kepner died on board the ship he had set sail from. miami shrouded in mystery with FBI And the medical examiner’s office in South Florida refused to release any information about the case for weeks.
The teen’s 16-year-old half-brother has been identified as a suspect in her death, according to court documents filed by her divorced parents in a dispute over custody of their youngest child in Brevard County along Florida’s Space Coast. The disclosures provide the clearest public indication that federal investigators are investigating a member of the victim’s blended family.
An attorney for the 16-year-old’s mother, Shontelle Hudson, who was Kepner’s stepmother, did not respond to an emailed inquiry Wednesday, nor did an attorney for the boy’s father, Thomas Hudson. Their youngest child currently lives with Shontelle Hudson, and Thomas Hudson has accused his ex-wife of violating time-sharing agreements. The 16-year-old boy was sent to stay with a relative of Shontell Hudson after returning from the cruise.
In the most recent court documents, the ex-spouses discussed via text the news of Kepner’s death going viral on social media and how to protect their 16-year-old son from public scrutiny. Thomas Hudson also said that he wanted his son to know that he was loved despite everything that happened.