New York police found that they said the body of the missing man was tortured by five people for more than a month

Cannandaga, N.Y. (AP) – New York State Police accused five people of murdering a missing man on Friday, authorities said authorities died of repeated violence and torture for more than a month before abandoning his body. A field.

The victim, Sam Nordquist, was a 24-year-old transgender person who was originally from Minnesota and disappeared on February 9. Police said he arrived in New York in September and lost contact with his loved ones.

Major Kevin Suk, commander of the state police force, including Finger Lakes, said the facts and circumstances in the case “beyond” and “the worst homicide investigation ever made by the office so far.

“No one should endure everything Sam has tolerated,” he said in a television news conference. Police did not share many details of the case, noting that the case is still under active investigation.

Asked whether Nordquist’s torture and death were considered a hate crime, Captain Kelly Swift, director of the Crime Department of the New York State Police Force, said police have not ruled but stressed that the investigation is still ongoing. Investigators also need to determine the relationship between northerners and suspects and the relationship between the suspects.

The arrests included precious Arzuaga, 38, and Patrick Goodwin, 30, of Canandaigua, New York; Kyle Sage, 33, of Rochester, New York; Jennifer Quijano, 30, of Geneva, New York. ); and Emily Motyka, 19, of Lima, New York. All five people were charged with second-degree murder after police searched a room at the Patty’s Lodge motel in Patty on Thursday, which was Nord The last place in Nordquist.

All five were detained by police, awaiting arraignment. It is not clear whether anyone has obtained a lawyer.

Swift said so far, the investigation revealed a “disturbing pattern of abuse” that ultimately led to deaths in northerners.