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Matthew Shepard

American LGBT student and murder victim

dead

born
1976
died
1998
age at death
21
known for
student

1976 – 1998

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Matthew Wayne Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. He was transported by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he died six days later from severe head injuries sustained during the attack.

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