:20:05
I'm not super familiar with that area...
:20:08
...which now maKes me thinK that
God wanted me to find him.
:20:15
I was going for a ride on my biKe...
:20:18
...and I noticed something
just laying there by the fence.
:20:25
I think it's a scarecrow.
:20:28
HaIIoween's coming up.
:20:30
I think it's a HaIIoween gag.
:20:34
I even noticed his chest
moving up and down.
:20:38
I stiII thought it was a dummy.
I thought it was some kind of mechanism.
:20:45
But when I....
:20:49
When I saw hair...
:20:52
...his hair...
:20:57
...I knew it was a human being.
:21:01
So what'd you do?
:21:03
I ran to the nearest house
as fast as I couId and caIIed the poIice.
:21:09
The Sheriff's Department
held a news conference today.
:21:11
They're investigating the attempted
murder of 22-year-old Matthew Shepard.
:21:16
The Sheriff says
they found the man badly beaten...
:21:19
...and unconscious,
tied to a fence last night.
:21:23
The brutal attacK left
Matthew Shepard in a coma.
:21:26
The bicyclist who found him
said he first thought it was a scarecrow.
:21:30
In jail now, charged with the crime...
:21:32
...21-year-old Russell Henderson
and Aaron McKinney, of Kidnapping....
:21:35
The victim, Matthew Shepard...
:21:38
...is in very critical condition at this hour
in Poudre Valley Hospital.
:21:48
The arraignment tooK place on Friday
around lunchtime.
:21:52
More detaiIs about the case
had come out...
:21:54
...Iike the fact that the perpetrators
themseIves were kids.
:21:58
Kids, local Kids, that everyone who's from
around here has some relationship to.