Sam Nordquist traveled 1,000 miles for love. His family made the same journey to confront his killers.

Precious Arzuaga was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the Black trans man. She is alleged to have been the ringleader of the torture that went on for weeks in a New York hotel in 2025.

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Kayla Nordquist warned her 24-year-old brother not to travel from Minnesota to New York to meet the older woman he fell in love with online.

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