What began as a simple paddleboarding trip ended with a homicide investigation, a community on edge and a 17-year-old charged with murder.

Maine authorities charged a teenage camper in the strangulation death of Sunshine Stewart, whose body was found on a remote island in Crawford Pond.

Prosecutors in Maine say they will seek to try a 17-year-old charged with murder in the death of a paddleboarder as an adult.

Early the next morning, authorities said they found her body near 100 Acre Island, a nature preserve in the middle of the pond. An autopsy later that day determined the 48-year-old woman’s death was a homicide.

Police in Maine say they have arrested a 17-year-old state resident in connection with the killing of a paddleboarder who went missing on a rural pond.

A 17-year-old has been arrested in the killing of Sunshine Stewart, whose body was discovered hours after she went paddleboarding on a wooded pond near coastal Maine.

What began as a simple paddleboarding trip ended with a homicide investigation, a community on edge and a 17-year-old charged with murder.

Authorities in Maine charged a 17-year-old with murder after the body of Sunshine Stewart, a paddleboarder, was found at Crawford Pond. The case has shocked the local community, as friends remember Stewart for her independent spirit and adventurous lifestyle.