A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the death of Sunshine Stewart, a paddleboarder who was found dead in Maine earlier this month.

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.

Sunshine Stewart, the slain paddleboarder, died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, Maine authorities announced Thursday.