Tributes poured in for Matthew Shepard on Monday 12 October which marked 22 years since he was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.
21-year-old openly gay Shepard had met up with friends to plan an LGBTQ+ awareness week at his university where he met Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney.
The pair then captured Shepard and drove him away from the town where they tortured him and tied him to a fence, leaving him to die.
He was found and hospitalised but eventually succumbed to his injuries.During a police confession, McKinney said he just intended to only rob Shepard but then attacked him because he reportedly put his hand on McKinney’s leg during the car ride.