A teenager who reportedly led police on a “wild goose chase” in their search for a paddleboarder at a Maine campground has been charged with her murder.

Deven Young, a 17-year-old who was at the Mic Mac Campground in Maine alongside his parents, was charged Friday with the murder of Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart, ABC News reported. Stewart, 48, was a newcomer to the camp. She was allegedly found strangled and bludgeoned to death after she’d gone missing while paddleboarding shortly before Independence Day.

Katharine Lunt, the owner of the Mic Mac Campground, reacted to Stewart’s death in an interview with ABC News. “It’s not a place where these things happen,” she said.

“It’s not a place where we’re suspect of each other,” she continued, calling the campground a “haven for all of us.”

Young always offered to help with yard work and made wooden crafts he provided to other campers, Lunt said. She also claimed he wanted to help the police investigate Stewart’s murder.

“He volunteered, he said he had some information, and he took them in the opposite direction of where Sunny was found.” Lunt told the outlet. “He had said he had something to show them, and took them out on the lake on pretty much a wild goose chase.”

Lunt said that alleged murderer was “acting totally normal.”

“He acted like nothing ever happened,” she continued. “It’s haunting, He was not on anybody’s radar.”

The campground owner suspected the teenager may have “said something” that made investigators pay closer attention to him. Officers continued to speak with the teen for a couple of hours, then returned and went to where his family was encamped that evening, according to ABC News. Police arrested Young on July 16. (RELATED: Man Allegedly Used Paddleboard To Steal Boat, Ram It Into Police Before Leading Officers On Chase)

Authorities have Young in custody at South Portland, Maine’s, Long Creek Youth Development Center, WGME 13 reported. His birthday is in September and the Maine Attorney General’s Office wants to have him tried as an adult.

Two people who allegedly knew Young as a child told Bangor Daily News he was often in trouble for fighting. Another person claimed Young had bullied kids since preschool while a fourth said he never observed the teen bullying others.