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Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. [1]
Unidentified murder victims in Wyoming (1 P) ... Matthew Shepard; Y. Marcela Hope Yellowbear This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 12:27 ...
Murder in Wyoming law; R. ... Matthew Shepard; Spring Creek raid; Starkweather/Fugate murders This page was last edited on 29 March 2013, at 19:05 (UTC). ...
It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student had been tied to a fence post, tortured and left to die. The murder drew national ...
The hate that Matthew’s murder spotlighted still exists today. Just last year, five people were killed by a far-right gunman in an anti-LGBTQ attack on a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Shepard was a student who was tortured and murdered in 1998 near Laramie, Wyoming. The attack was widely reported due to him being gay , and the trial employed a gay panic defense . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Byrd was an African American man who was tied to a truck by two white supremacists and a third man who had no racist background, dragged behind it, and ...
Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and violence. But the latter part of Biden's statement—that his murder was spurred by homophobic animus—is the most important.
Judy Shepard (née Peck; born August 15, 1952) is the mother of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at University of Wyoming who was murdered in October 1998. She and her husband, Dennis Shepard , are co-founders of the Matthew Shepard Foundation , and advocate for LGBT rights .