ORLANDO, Fla. — The death of an 18-year-old aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship earlier this month could result in charges being filed against a teenage stepbrother as the FBI continues its investigation, according to filings in Brevard County family court.

A motion filed Monday by a lawyer representing the stepmother of Anna Kepner seeks to postpone a Dec. 17 hearing, part of a divorce proceeding, amid the FBI’s investigation. The circumstances of Kepner’s death have not been released, but her stepmother Shauntel Hudson said that the investigation’s progress led to an “extremely sensitive and severe circumstance” arising.

Hudson, according to the filing first reported by WFTV , “has been advised through discussions with FBI investigators and her attorneys that a criminal case may be init

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