Murder of Sam Nordquist

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Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man from Red Wing, Minnesota, was killed in Hopewell, New York, in February 2025 after being tortured for over a month. Nordquist had been tortured between December 2024 and February 2025 before being killed, according to a police news release on February 14, 2025. In Hopewell, the New York State Police, working with local law enforcement, arrested five people, ages 19 to 38, who were charged with second-degree murder with depraved indifference. On February 20, two more suspects, a 29-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, were charged with the same offense. Four of the suspects pled guilty to murder charges. In September 2026, two of the perpetrators, Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano, were sentenced to life in prison without parole for the torture and killing of Nordquist.

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