Matthew Sheppard before media:
Scumming meth dealer who told two other meth dealers that he’d given them AIDS. They envied Sheppard’s meth routes to Chicago, they no longer liked “their friend Matt”, and not thinking ahead much while high, killed him.
Matthew Sheppard after media:
Misunderstood, French-speaking sophisticate unfairly singled out by intolerant hicks, crucified like a tragic Saint on a barbed-wire fence (he was leaning against a post which formed part of such a fence).
Yeah. He and Trayvon are kind of the salt-n-pepper set of Instant Deification.