Anna Kepner’s Body Was Found Under a Bed in Her Stateroom on Carnival Cruise Ship: Report

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• FBI investigating teenager’s death in international waters during family vacation

• Anna Kepner, an 18-year-old from Florida, was reportedly found dead under the bed in her stateroom aboard the Carnival Horizon in early November.

• “He had an energy that drew you in with his smile,” relatives said after his death.

Police are investigating the death of a teenager whose body was found aboard the Carnival cruise ship during a family trip.

relatives before The victim was identified as 18-year-old Anna Kepner. In a Nov. 9 interview from Titusville, Florida ABC News. The high school cheerleader was found dead on November 8 while traveling on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship from Miami to the Caribbean.

A servant found Kepner’s body under the bed in his cabin. CBS News reported Tuesday, Nov. 18, citing law enforcement sources.

“The death of a guest traveling on the Carnival Horizon cruise who returned to PortMiami on the morning of Saturday, November 8, is being investigated,” a spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line told PEOPLE on Nov. 10, adding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was investigating the death.

“As this is an ongoing matter under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, it is up to the FBI’s Miami public affairs office to provide further details. Our focus is on supporting our subject’s family,” the statement said.

The Miami-Dade Police Department and the FBI’s Miami Division did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment Tuesday.

Kepner was found dead on the Carnival cruise ship, which was traveling in the Caribbean with his father, his wife and Kepner’s three half-siblings, on its way back to Miami, where it docked on Nov. 8, CBS News reported.

His family said the high school student said he wasn’t feeling well the night before he died, so he went back to his room.

Speaking to ABC News after his death, the young man’s loved ones said Kepner was “an open person, loved being around people, had an energy that drew you in with his smile.”

The teenager had plans to join the military after graduating in May and had already taken the necessary tests.

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“He was already talking to recruiters and had chosen his career path. He wanted to do something that would help his community,” his family told ABC News.

The investigation is ongoing as law enforcement and the FBI are checking surveillance video, electronic card data and interviewing others who were on the ship during Kepner’s family trip, CBS News reported.

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