The family of 18-year-old Anna Kepner has spoken of their shock and pain on finding her dead in her room aboard a luxury cruise ship earlier this month.

“We were looking forward to seeing her grow,” her grandfather, Jeffrey Kepner, told ABC News in an interview Monday.

“I couldn’t fathom why anyone would wanna hurt my baby,” her grandmother, Barbara Kepner, added.

Anna, a high school senior and cheerleader from Titusville, Florida, was found dead on Nov. 8 in her stateroom aboard the Carnival Horizon. While authorities have not publicly announced a cause of death, the family says the FBI informed them it may have been by asphyxiation from an arm across the neck, and that her 16-year-old stepbrother is now being looked at as a potential suspect in the case.

The 18-year-old was vacati

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