Anna Kepner’s stepbrother booted from family home over safety concerns as FBI mulls charging him in cheerleader’s death

Anna Kepner’s 16-year-old stepbrother was kicked out of his family’s Florida home as the feds are reportedly considering charges against him in connection with the cheerleader’s cruise ship death.

The boy’s mother, Shauntel Kepner, and her husband sent the teen to live with relatives to avoid the “risk of any danger” to the other children in their home, Kepner’s attorney, Millicent Athanason, said in an emergency custody hearing on Friday, according to People.

The hearing was part of an ongoing dispute between Kepner and her ex-husband.

Athanason also revealed Friday that charges against Kepner’s stepbrother, who has been named in court filings as a suspect in the case, could soon be filed.

“We’re not sure what the FBI is going to do … Whether he’s going to be charged federally or whether they’re going to turn it over to the state,” Athanason said Friday, Fox News reported.

Anna Kepner, 18, was found dead on a Carnival cruise ship on Nov. 7, her body shoved under a bed, stuffed in a blanket and covered by life vests.

Her death has been ruled a homicide and, according to her death certificate, she “was mechanically asphyxiated by other person(s)” on Nov. 6.

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