Two people convicted in the torture and murder of Sam Nordquist received the maximum sentence Tuesday, coming face to face with his family before being sentenced to life in prison without parole.

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (WHAM) — Two people convicted in the torture and murder of Sam Nordquist received the maximum sentence Tuesday, coming face to face with his family before being sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano are the first defendants to be sentenced in the killing of Nordquist, 24, a transgender man from Oakdale, Minnesota, who traveled to the Finger Lakes region in September 2024 and stayed at Patty’s Lodge in Hopewell.

Authorities said Nordquist was tortured from Jan. 1 to Feb. 2, 2025, before his body was found in a Yates County field Feb. 13, 2025.

  • TheMuffinMan@piefed.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Thanks.

    I don’t think every crime perpetrated against an LGBT person is necessarily because they’re LGBT; reporting like this is dishonest to advocacy causes and reductive to the victim.

    I realise that my comment was likely misinterpreted to get nuked by the mods, but if anything happened to me and the news was all “HE’S TRANS BTW” at every opportunity… well, it would hurt, if I were still alive. I’m a regular person.