The Frankfort teen charged with killing a midcoast woman has a history of uncontrolled anger and defiance, according to a newly discovered police report.
Deven Young, now 18, has “violent tendencies,” for which he has been medicated and hospitalized, the report says.
The report was published late Thursday by the Midcoast Villager, which had gone to court to force its being made public.
Police had declined to publish details of its previous interactions with Young and his family until a judge ordered their release.
Young was 17 when he was arrested late last summer, charged with murdering Sunshine Stewart at a Union campground where she had gone paddleboarding.
The suspect had been camping with his family at Mic Mac Campground when he was charged in the crime.
Sunshine, 48, of St. George, had been found dead on an island in Crawford Pond adjacent to the camping area, the victim of strangulation and blunt force trauma.
After a weeks-long investigation, State Police arrested Young in connection with her killing after he approached investigators who were reportedly about to collect a DNA sample from his father.
Prosecutors said at the time they were seeking to try Young as an adult but they have revealed little more.
The newly released police report paints a picture of an often-violent and belligerent Deven Young, a source telling a Waldo County deputy sheriff that the rooms in the Young household have holes in the walls from his punching them.
Young had spent time at one point at Acadia Hospital in Bangor, a psychiatric hospital, police disclosed.
