In the evening hours of Oct. At the Fireside, Shepard sat at the bar drinking from a bottle of imported beer. After somewhat more than an hour, he was approached by two men his own age: Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, high-school dropouts with roofing jobs. They had purchased a pitcher of beer with small change and eventually engaged Shepard in a conversation. Shortly after midnight, Shepard left the bar with McKinney and Henderson; police and prosecutors would assert that the two men lured Shepard, perhaps under the pretense of themselves being gay, but in fact with the intent of robbing him.
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Jessie who? I had to ask the same question when I first heard of him, but more on that in a bit. If Jessie Smollet did fake his hate crime, he may have been persuaded to do so by propaganda which spiraled out of the murder of Matthew Shepard in Matthew Shepard died on October 12, I remember hearing of the horrible details of his beating, crucifixion, and death. I was a sophomore at Creighton University at the time.
Jump to navigation Skip navigation. On October 6, , two young men in Laramie, Wyoming, tricked University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard into thinking they would give him a ride home from the bar. Eighteen hours later, a cyclist found the gay student tied to a fence, beaten, burned, and comatose with a fractured skull. He initially mistook Shepard's limp frame for a scarecrow.
T he horrific killing of Matthew Shepard in is widely seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crimes in American history. They pistol whipped him with a gun then tied him to a fence in freezing conditions and set fire to him before leaving him to die. Politicians and celebrities pledged support and funding to combat anti-gay hate crime. The Shepard family have become campaigners for gay rights.