stephen jimenez is an award-winning writer and producer. 2012 norman mailer nonfiction fellow and has written and produced programs for abc news, 2020, dan rather reports, nova, fox, court tv and others. his accolades include the western guild of america reward, i'm sorry -- as bishop of bible is the here. monger said the word for us to caitiff reporting and ambient fellowships of view across the nation in wyoming. a graduate of georgetown university just a screenwriting at new york university's tisch school of the arts and other colleges. he lives in new york and santa fe. steve, thanks for putting on a park and coming out visiting us deepening. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, good evening. it's really a pleasure to be here in laramie again because i just went on a very long and wild journey but i never expected, you know, what happened. i would like to do first, and wintry day couple excerpts from the book, the first i would like to sell you a little bit about how i came to this story. obviously when this crime happened i was as horrified by everyone around the country about the

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] next stephen jimenez argues the killing of matthew shepard in laramie wyoming in october of 1998 was not an hate crime but instead the result of a drug-related robbery gone wrong. this is a little over two hours. >> let me tell you how we came to be here tonight. as most of you are aware, i was an assistant principal at virginia high school and was in the laramie school systems for 30 years and so i saw a lot of stuff from my position and here in november a friend of mine palled around and erma said glenn have you seen a new book out on matthew shepard and as i am sure that a number of you are, it's hey that's old news. why do we want to drag that up? she said no, this i think is worthy of your reading it. irma let me have the book and i didn't put it down for two days because i lived it and i mean this is the way i saw it as i was going through the schools and working with these young people. and you know i don't want to change anything. i don't want you to look at this in any other way. it was a tragedy that took place back then and