The 17-year-old suspect in the murder of a paddleboarder earlier this month will appear in court on Friday, where he is expected to be charged with one count of murder. Sunshine Stewart was found dead on July 3 at Crawford Pond in Union, Maine. Her cause of death was strangulation and blunt force trauma, Maine State Police revealed Thursday.

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.

A 17-year-old has been arrested in connection with the investigation into the murder of Sunshine Stewart, a Maine paddleboarder found dead July 3.