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Two women sentenced to life in prison for torture, death of Minnesota native Sam Nordquist
Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano received the maximum sentence after pleading guilty to torture, kidnapping and first-degree murder, prosecutors said.
- On Tuesday, Ontario County Judge Kristina Karle sentenced Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano to life in prison without parole for the 2025 torture and murder of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota.
- Nordquist traveled to New York in September 2024 to visit Arzuaga, whom he met online, but was held captive for weeks at a motel in Hopewell before being killed in early 2025.
- Prosecutors described Arzuaga as the "ringleader" orchestrating the abuse, while Ontario County Assistant District Attorney Sara Van Strydonck called Quijano "the muscle," citing evidence defendants beat Nordquist with household objects and confined him in a cage.
- Ontario County Judge Kristina Karle told Arzuaga, "Sam came here looking for love, and sadly and tragically he found you," while Nordquist's family delivered impact statements describing their profound loss.
- While Kyle Sage and Emily Motyka have pleaded guilty and await sentencing, Patrick Goodwin, Kimberly Sochia, and Thomas Eaves remain in custody facing trial in January 2027.
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A New York courtroom on Tuesday delivered the harassment possible punishment in the torture killing of a transgender man from Minnesota. A juudge sentenced Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer "Brooklyn" Quijano to life in prison without word for the 2025 waller of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist, which body was found in a...
·Miami, United States
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Sam Nordquist traveled 1,000 miles for love. His family made the same journey to confront his killers.
Precious Arzuaga was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the Black trans man. She is alleged to have been the ringleader of the torture that went on for weeks in a New York hotel in 2025.
·New York, United States
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