Two additional suspects were arrested last week in the death of Sam Nordquist, 24, of Minnesota, who New York State Police say was tortured and sexually assaulted for more than a month before his death in Ontario County.

Police say Thomas Eaves, 21, of Geneva, and Kimberly Sochia, 29, of Canandaigua, were taken into custody. They, along with five others, are charged with second-degree murder.

Shannon Davenport says her autistic son, Caleb, was friends with Eaves for three days in 2022 when her son was 16 years old.

“Caleb, he wanted to make friends and he's very easily swayed. So he ran into Thomas and a group of his friends a few times at the community center and tried to befriend them. They befriended Caleb, essentially. Well, this friendship was about three days long. They went for a walk down on the canal trail and they decided to beat him up and rob him. They beat him up to the point where he was left unconscious down by the canal trail. They stole the shoes off his feet, took his cell phone and took his money and left him there,” Davenport claimed.

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office arrested Eaves and three other individuals in connection with the incident. In an earlier news release, according to the office’s records, Eaves was charged with robbery in the second degree, conspiracy in the fourth degree, assault in the third degree, endangering the welfare of a child and petit larceny. However, the Wayne County District Attorney’s Office has since sealed this case.

“What possessed them to want to do that? To inflict that type of harm onto somebody and then to be able to walk away from him while he's just lying there helpless?” asked Davenport. “And for their ages to be so young and to do something so brutal and to simply walk away from it just makes me wonder what they went through their whole lives.”

The sheriff’s office has also confirmed that he was sentenced to six months in jail from June 7, 2023, until Oct. 5, 2023. However, months after serving that sentence, Eaves was charged again for violating his probation, according to the sheriff’s office. The sheriff says he was resentenced to another year behind bars but got out early for good time.

“He was released on probation with all of these times. And then I got a call from the Victims Advocate saying that he was right back in, charged with some other assault. So it's like he's constantly out there committing these crimes and he was never getting any sort of actual punishment for it,” said Davenport. “Nothing to where it changed his mindset of how he should live his life. I do blame bail reform for Thomas being out and able to even participate in anything that happened.”

The Ontario County district attorney confirmed in a press conference last week that Eaves is the son of another suspect in the Nordquist case, Precious Azuaga.

“[The] apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” Davenport said. “It set itself right at its root.”

She sends her thoughts to the Nordquist family as they fight for justice for their son and brother, Sam.

“That terrible stuff that happened to my child, he only went through one day of it and Sam suffered two months at their hands. So what Caleb went through is nothing compared to what Sam went through,” Davenport said. “The people are just evil.”