NORTH WATERBORO — A spokesman for the office of the Maine Medical Examiner said Tuesday morning that the death of Jaden Dremsa, the 15-year-old whose body was discovered in Lake Arrowhead Saturday, has been ruled an accidental drowning.
Dremsa’s mother, Jennifer Howard also posted the message on the Facebook page “Help Find Jaden Dremsa,” at 8:15 a.m. today.
“I am posting to let you know that Jaden’s death has been ruled an accidental drowning,” she wrote. “We will never know what happened on May 8th. But that is the date of his death. I pray that he did not know pain and that he did not suffer.”
Howard said a memorial service to celebrate her son’s life is set for 4 p.m. Saturday, May 31 at Lakeside Community Church, which had been the command post for the Maine Warden Service as they searched for the boy, a freshman at Massabesic High School.
Dremsa’s disappearance May 8, after he failed to come home from a walk in the woods, touched off a massive search effort by Maine wardens, sheriff’s deputies, state troopers, search and rescue team members, fire departments, and people who just wanted to help. As the search of the two-mile radius and beyond around his home at Twin Pines mobile home park continued, eventually the focus shifted to the lake itself, which is about half a mile behind the park.
Lake levels were lowered, the lake searched by boat and aircraft, and then allowed to refill. On Saturday, as wardens searched the lake again, a boater discovered the body.
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