:17:01
...they take it back there into the pooI area,
and they just kept to themseIves.
:17:06
It was going on for haIf an hour...
:17:08
...and then I noticed RusseII and Aaron
had been taIking with Matthew Shepard.
:17:13
Some people are saying
he made a pass at them.
:17:16
HeII, you don't pick up reguIar peopIe.
:17:20
Aaron and I have been together
for two years.
:17:24
Aaron said that a guy waIked up to him
and said he was gay...
:17:28
...and wanted to get with him and Russ.
:17:30
Aaron's reaIIy bad about that.
:17:32
He doesn't Iike to be around gay peopIe
at aII, and neither does Russ.
:17:36
They just don't Iike them at aII.
:17:39
So he got aggravated with it
and said he was straight...
:17:42
...and he didn't wanna have anything
to do with it, and he waIked off.
:17:46
He said that's when him and Russ
went into the bathroom...
:17:49
...and decided to pretend that they were
gay and get him in the truck and rob him.
:17:54
They wanted to teach him a Iesson
not to come on to straight peopIe.
:17:59
I'm not excusing their actions,
but it seems to be partiaIIy his fauIt...
:18:03
...and partiaIIy the guys who did it,
so, you know...
:18:07
...maybe it's 50-50.
:18:09
They stated that Matt came on to them,
that he approached them.
:18:12
I absoIuteIy, positiveIy disbeIieve
and refute that statement 100 percent.
:18:17
I'II give you two reasons why.
One, character reference.
:18:20
Why wouId he approach them? He wasn't
approaching anyone eIse in the bar.
:18:24
Okay, they say he's gay,
that he was a fIaming gay.
:18:26
He's gonna come on to peopIe Iike that.
:18:28
BuIIshit! He never came on to me.
I mean, heIIo! Come on.
:18:31
He's gonna approach these two guys?
PIease.
:18:33
And two, territoriaIism.
Matt was sitting there.
:18:37
Aaron and RusseII were back there.
:18:39
Upon their first interaction,
they were in Matt's area...
:18:43
...the area that he had been
seen sitting aII night Iong.
:18:45
So who approached who by that?
:18:48
He'd never not talK to someone
for any reason.
:18:51
If someone started taIking to him,
he'd just be Iike, ''BIah, bIah, bIah.''
:18:56
He had no probIem just striking up
a conversation with anybody.