"..25 years ago today, Matthew Shepard was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6th, 1998, just for being gay.
He died six days later October 12th, from severe head injuries. He was just 21 years old.."

The guys that did it said they had been doing meth for days and targeted him as a robbery victim. They didn’t care about him being gay. They were pizzed he had no money to steal.