Seven suspects in Sam Nordquist’s murder and torture

Canandaigua, NY – The seven people accused of killing and torture the man of Minnesota Sam Nordquist in ontarium county must appear before the court on Tuesday afternoon.

A judge is ready to accuse the suspects in the Ontario County Court after They were accused For multiple positions, including first -degree murder. They face life in prison without probation if they find it guilty.

Prosecutors say they tortured Nordquist, a 24 -year -old transgender man, for more than a month inside Patty’s Lodge motel and eliminated his body in a field in Yates County. Prosecutors say that he was physically, sexually and psychologically abused.

According to Nordquists’ family, he traveled to the Finger Lakes region in September to meet at the price of Arzuaga, his girlfriend with whom he connected online. The family reported him missing on February 9 after losing contact with him and the researchers found his body three days later.

Arzuaga is among the defendants of murder and accused of coercion after prosecutors say that he forced two children, 7 and 12 years old, to participate in torture.

All suspects are also accused of second degree murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, endangering the well -being of a child and the concealment of a human corpse. The Ontario County Assistant District says that Nordquist’s murder was not a hate crime, saying that “a hate crime would make this position on Sam’s genre or on Sam’s race and that it is much bigger.”

Look News10NBC from 4 pm for the latest in the Court Chamber.

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