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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.
:22:09
So then a judge comes in
and does a reading of the facts.
:22:12
The Defendants, Aaron James McKinney
and RusseII Arthur Henderson...
:22:18
...met Matthew Shepard
at the Fireside Bar.
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After Mr. Shepard confided he was gay...
:22:24
...the subjects deceived Mr. Shepard...
:22:26
...into Ieaving with them
in their vehicIe to a remote area.
:22:31
En route to said Iocation, Mr. Shepard
was struck in the head with a pistoI...
:22:36
...and upon arrivaI at said area...
:22:39
...both subjects tied their victim
to a buck fence...
:22:42
...robbed him, tortured him,
and continued to beat and terrorize him.
:22:47
When I got to the fence,
I seen what appeared to be a young man...
:22:53
...13 or 14 years of age,
because he was so tiny, Iaying there...
:22:57
...and he was bound
to the bottom of the poIe.