
Five people have been charged in New York with murder after police say they tortured and killed a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota. According to the authorities, Sam Norquist’s body was found in a field in Yates County after enduring months of torture.
In a GoFundMe, Sam’s sister, Kayla, noted that he traveled to New York in late September to meet his online girlfriend. The last time the family heard from Sam was on Jan. 1. Since the launch of the donation page, Sam Norquist’s body was found.
According to troopers, Patty’s Lodge Motel was the last location where Nordquist was known to be staying, and that’s where they located the people involved with his alleged torture and murder. They are charged with second-degree murder.
News 10 reports:
At a news conference on Friday, Captain Kelly Swift of the NYSP Bureau of Criminal Investigations said Nordquist endured “prolonged physical and physiological abuse” starting in December.