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.
12 Comments
khannie@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 4d
A month!!! What the fuck.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 4d
What an absolutely disgusting person. Good riddance.
manxu@piefed.social · 32 pts · 4d
Even the Wikipedia page reads like a cabinet of horrors. What an absolutely horrific tragedy, perpetrated against a man that wanted nothing but love.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sam_Nordquist
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 4d
Prison is too good for people like that.
Put them in a labor camp.
TheMuffinMan@piefed.world · -25 pts · 4d
Good.
Nothing in the article indicates this was a hate crime; why is ‘transgender’ in the headline and every other mention of Nordquist?
diablicja@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 4d
A lot of well meaning people try to bring attention to the disproportionate violence against lgbtq people by highlighting every case where an lgbtq person is a victim of a crime. I think this is the wrong approach because
But then again when you see this kind of news and your first instinct is to discuss the importance of the victim being transgender, you don't come across as well meaning, so that's probably why you're being downvoted to hell
TheMuffinMan@piefed.world · 7 pts · 3d
Thank you for your input. That checks out.
Re my comment, I’m literally trans! I commented on it because it would fucking suck if that’s how I’d be reported on in a similar situation. It’s so reductive.
Edit: I see that my original comment has been removed. That is deeply disappointing.diablicja@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 3d
Are you sure? It's still visible to me.
TheMuffinMan@piefed.world · 1 pts · 2d
Strange! At least using Interstellar on iOS, I get an error trying to load my top level comment - and only that one.
Axiochus@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 4d
From the Wiki, there are at least some lgbtq advocacy groups who have advocated for this to be classified as a hate crime. That said, the prominent feature of the victim's gender status does imply that this was perpetrated by cishet people, which seems to not have been the case.
TheMuffinMan@piefed.world · 4 pts · 3d
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.
Axiochus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
Totally agreed.