Five people charged with murder in Sam Nordquist\u2019s death in upstate New York also identified as LGBTQ+, say officials<\/p>\n
Authorities investigating the alleged torture and murder of Sam Nordquist<\/a> in upstate New York say they have found no evidence the transgender man\u2019s killing was a hate crime, pointing out that five people recently charged in connection with the slaying also identified as LGBTQ+.<\/p>\n \u201cWe urge the community not to speculate into the motive behind the murder as we work to find justice for Sam,\u201d authorities said over the weekend in a joint press release<\/a> from the Ontario county district attorney\u2019s office and New York state police. \u201cAt this time, we have no indication that Sam\u2019s murder was a hate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five people charged with murder in Sam Nordquist\u2019s death in upstate New York also identified as LGBTQ+, say officials Authorities investigating the alleged torture and murder of Sam Nordquist in upstate New York say they have found no evidence the transgender man\u2019s killing was a hate crime, pointing out that five people recently charged in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}