America's Next Top Model contestant shot dead in triple homicide

Mirjana Puhar, an America’s Next Top Model contestant, was killed in a triple murder.

17:28 26 February 2015

19-year-old Mirjana Puhar, who appeared in America’s Next Top Model, was killed in a triple murder with her boyfriend Jonathan Cosme Alvarado and friend Jusmar Isiah Gonzaga in North Carolina on Tuesday, it has now been confirmed. 

Puhar appeared in the series last year and was eliminated in the 10th episode.

A 19-year-old man named Emmanuel Jesus Rangel has been arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder, as confirmed by the police.

The authorities also stated that the case was drug-related.

Ms Puhar was born in Serbia and moved to the US with her family when she was five.

A source said that she was “a wild child” and she went out and partied, and did not “have the best influences around”.