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- [Robert] Matthew Shepard – In early October of 1998, Matthew Shepard was a 21 year-old college student at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. One night, he went to a local bar and while there he met and eventually left with two other young men, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. In the hours that followed, McKinney and Henderson beat, tortured, and robbed Matthew. They then tied him to a fence in a secluded area of Laramie to die. He was found the next day by a cyclist who thought he had stumbled upon a scarecrow. Matthew died on October 12th, 1998.
- What impact, if any, did his murder have on your life?
Links
- The Matthew Shepard Foundation
- Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
- First drafted in 2001, the actual act did not pass and was not signed until 2009 by President Obama.
- The Laramie Project
