The remains of Sam Nordquist, 24, a transgender man, were found after he had been reported missing. The district attorney in Ontario County, N.Y., called the circumstances surrounding the death “beyond depraved.” Listen to this article · 5:26 min Learn more Share full article Jamie Ritts, the Ontario County district attorney, said that five people arrested in connection with the death were arraigned Friday morning and being held without bail. A 24-year-old man from Minnesota who had been missing since December was subjected to violence and torture before his remains were found this week in a field in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, the authorities said. Five people were arrested in connection with his death and charged with murder, the New York State Police said on Friday. At least one of them was said to have been staying with the victim at a motel. The victim, Sam Nordquist, who the police said was a transgender man, had been subjected to “repeated acts of violence and torture” between December of last year and this month, according to Capt. Kelly Swift of the State Police’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (…) The five people arrested have been charged with second-degree murder. They were identified as: Precious Arzuaga, 38 of Geneva, N.Y.; Jennifer A. Quijano, 30, also of Geneva; Kyle Sage, 33 of Hopewell, N.Y.; Patrick A. Goodwin, 30, of Rochester, N.Y.; and Emily Motyka, 19, also of Rochester. (…) The police said that Precious Arzuaga had been staying at the motel with Mr. Nordquist and others who have not been identified. Mr. Goodwin is listed as a registered sex offender in the state for a case from 2015. The state lists his address as the motel.
via nytimes: Person Killed in New York Was Tortured for More Than a Month, Police Say
siehe auch: Hassverbrechen USA: Trans Mann nach wochenlanger Folter ermordet Im US-Bundesstaat New York sollen fünf Personen den 24-jährigen trans Mann Sam Nordquist wochenlang missbraucht und schließlich getötet haben. Sie wurden des Mordes mit bedingtem Vorsatz und “abartiger Gleichgültigkeit” angeklagt. Ein trans Mann in den USA ist nach wochenlanger Folter ermordet worden. Fünf Verdächtige seien festgenommen worden, teilte die Polizei mit. Die mutmaßliche Leiche des 24-jährigen Sam Nordquist war am Donnerstag in einem Feld in der Nähe der Stadt Canandaigua im Bundesstaat New York gefunden worden. Nordquist war vor einer Woche als vermisst gemeldet worden. “Unsere Ermittlungen haben ein verstörendes Muster von Missbrauch aufgedeckt, das schlussendlich in Sams tragischem Tod endete”, sagte Ermittlerin Kelly Swift von der New Yorker Polizei am Freitag bei einer Pressekonferenz. In ihren 20 Jahren bei der Polizei sei dieser Fall eines der schlimmsten Verbrechen, die sie je untersucht habe, erklärte Swift. (…) Die Polizei geht davon aus, dass Nordquist von Anfang Dezember 2024 bis Februar 2025 wiederholt missbraucht und gefoltert wurde, wodurch er schließlich starb. Seine Leiche sei dann zu dem Feld gebracht worden, um das Verbrechen zu vertuschen.