Matthew Wayne Shepard was born in Casper, Wyoming on December 1st 1976, to Judy Peck and Dennis Shepard. He also had a younger brother named Logan who was born in 1981. During a high school trip to Morocco in 1995, Matthew was beaten and raped for being gay, causing him to deal with panic attacks and depression. Despite this setback, he continued on to go to college at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, studying political science which he was extremely interested in. In 1998, Shepard was brutally murdered by Aaron McKinney and Russel Henderson for being gay. Matthew's short life ended on October 12th 1998 when he was taken off of life support at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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