Precious Arzuaga was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the Black trans man. She’s accused of being the ringleader of the torture that went on for weeks in a hotel in 2025.

Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano were sentenced Tuesday to life without parole for the death of Sam Nordquist, a transgender man, in Ontario County, New York.

Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer “Brooklyn” Quijano admitted to torturing and killing Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota.