Investigators have not yet found evidence that the torture and killing of a transgender man whose body was discarded in an upstate New York field was a hate crime, law enforcement officials said.
Five people were charged Friday in the death of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man who was reported missing on Feb. 9. State Police Maj. Kevin Sucher called the circumstances of the case “beyond depraved” at a post-arrest news conference in the Finger Lakes region. Officials said the investigation found a “deeply disturbing pattern of abuse” that ultimately led to Nordquist’s death.
