The devilish ringleader who helped torture and murder a transgender man at an upstate New York motel was handed the maximum punishment on Tuesday as the courtroom erupted in cheers.

The third of four co-defendants to plead guilty in the Sam Nordquist murder case is due in Ontario County Court Wednesday.

A New York judge sentenced two women who admitted to torturing and murdering 24-year-old Sam Nordquist in 2025 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer ...

Two women have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for torturing and killing a transgender man in New York. Precious Arzuaga, 40, and Jennifer “Brooklyn” Quijano, 32, pleaded guilty to ...

Canandaigua, N.Y. — Precious Arzuaga and her former girlfriend, Jennifer “Brooklyn” Quijano, were both sentenced to life in prison today for the role they played in the kidnapping, murder and torture ...

Canandaigua, N.Y. — Precious Arzuaga admitted today to torturing and killing Sam Nordquist in February 2025. Arzuaga appeared in Ontario County Court this morning and pleaded guilty to charges that ...

Precious Arzuaga, 40, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in the weekslong torture and killing of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist.

Two people were sentenced to life in prison in connection with the murder of a transgender man from Minnesota who authorities say was tortured for more than a month before being killed in upstate New ...

Two of the people responsible for the torture and murder of transgender man Sam Nordquist will be sentenced Tuesday in Ontario County Court.

WARNING: Some details in this story may be found disturbing to some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) — Seven people accused of killing a 24-year-old man in upstate New ...

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — The community gathered this week to honor Sam Nordquist, the transgender man from Minnesota who was tortured and killed in Ontario County. Nordquist would have turned 25 on ...

A grand jury indictment of seven suspects in the death of Sam Nordquist revealed new details about the kinds of torture investigators believe he endured. Nordquist, a transgender man, was found dead ...