Date of Birth- 1 December 1976, Casper, Wyoming, USA
Date of Death- 12 October 1998, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (homicide)
Birth Name- Matthew Wayne Shepard
Height- 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Matthew Wayne Shepard was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and later murdered near Laramie, Wyoming. He was attacked on the night of October 6-7 in October 1998 and died on poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, 12 October from serious head injuries.
During the trial, witnesses that Shepard was targeted because he was gay. His murder brought national as well as international attention to the issue of hate crime legislation at national and local level.
Russell Arthur Henderson pleaded guilty to criminal murder and kidnapping, and allows him to avoid the death penalty. Aaron James McKinney was convicted of murder and kidnapping crime. Henderson is currently two consecutive life sentences and McKinney show the same, but without the possibility of parole
Matthew Shepard's Death Not a Hate Crime video-
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