He didn't deserve to be talking to me. I just deserve to die. And I asked him what had happened. Later that day, Aaron McKinney and Russ Henderson were arrested. Their girlfriends, Chastity Pasley and Kristen Price, the woman who spoke to us, were charged as accessories.
Police say they concocted alibis and concealed evidence.
From the streets of Laramie to the White House, this savage beating was called nothing less than a crime of hatred. I don't think it's a hate crime. I don't think it's a hate crime. I mean, everywhere in the United States, they are looked at differently. I know in the core of my heart it happened because he revealed he was gay.