America’s Next Top Model Contestant Murdered:
A one-time America’s Next Top Model Contestant murdered in a North Carolina home, according to friends.
Stunning Serbian native Mirjana Puhar, 19, was found murdered around 5 p.m. in a grisly scene at a Norris Ave. home in Charlotte, police said.
A friend close to Puhar, who competed on season 21 of ANTM last year, called cops after finding the aspiring model and her boyfriend dead at the bloody scene, TMZ reported. Another man was also among the dead.
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Cops on Wednesday busted 19-year-old Emmanuel Jesus Rangel and charged him with three counts of murder in the triple killing. The other victims were identified as Puhar’s 23-year-old boyfriend, Jonathan Alvarado and his roommate and best friend, 21-year-old Jusmar Gonzaga-Garcia.
Authorities are investigating whether the murders are related to a fatal shooting early Sunday at a hotel in Matthews, N.C. In that case, cops found one man dead and a second seriously wounded around 1 a.m. in the parking lot of a Microtel Inn, some 14 miles southeast of Charlotte.
A source told TMZ, which first identified Puhar as a victim, that the triple murder was drug related and that the victims knew their killer.
A profile of Puhar, who was eliminated during the 10th episode of the season, published last summer in the Charlotte Observer reveals the “perky, plucky” budding model moved to New York City with her family in 2000 before landing in Charlotte.
She started modeling at age 12 and later dropped out of high school.
“I was a wild child,” she told the newspaper. “I went out, had fun, partied, whatever – I didn’t really have the best influences around me.”
At the time, she implied she was single but was coy about a possible love interest.
She last posted a selfie to Instagram, where she used the handle “queen M,” on Sunday with the caption, “know ur worth baby girl. 1luvvv.”
