Beaten up to such point that he died.
Matthew Shepard was a meth head and meth dealer who was picked up by two other meth heads and beaten to death because that is what meth heads do.
His death had nothing to do at all with his sexual proclivities.
Yes, but my point was that they didn’t even know he was gay, which was what all the clamor was originally about. They were drunken thugs, and he certainly wasn’t the only person ever to have been killed by a bunch of drunks after a night at the bar.