‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant Mirjana Puhar has been murdered in a drug-related slaying, killed less than a year after she rose to fame on the show’s 21st cycle.
Tragic news below…
The model was one of three people killed in a drug-related killing in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday.
Mirjana Puhar who grew up in Charlotte after her family fled war-torn Serbia, was found shot to death with two other victims, Jusmar Isiah Gonzaga-Garcia, 21, and Jonathan Cosme Alvarado, 23, in a house in the city’s Tryon Hills neighborhood Tuesday evening.
The alleged killer, Emmanuel Jesus Rangel, 23, was arrested Wednesday on three counts of first-degree murder. Police said he knew the victims and that the killings were drug related. Rangel has also been charged in connection with a murder that took place in nearby Matthews, North Carolina on Sunday, police said.
In a statement released today, a “deeply saddened” Tyra Banks shared:
She was a vivacious and promising young woman. Our hearts and prayers go out to her loved ones.
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omg…….
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See this why people should not take their life for granted. Every moment matters. May she RIP. It’s so sad that we’re dying off younger and younger everyday
Life is too short 🙁
so sad.
damn RIP,and my condolences to friends and family.
Of all the places to be in Charlotte, tryon hills is definitely not the place I’d expect to see a former top model contestant. Its so sad to hear this news.
Saw this earlier. Rip. She was so beautiful
Very sad! The guy who shot her should of been in jail. Why wasn’t he? He had assaulted another woman at the place where she as murdered!! http://redalertlive.com/americas-next-top-model-murder-mirjana-puhar-update/
OMGGGGG. I remember her affair with Denzel on the show. N she was so pretty n feisty. RIP:(