{"id":743,"date":"2026-06-09T20:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:45:05","slug":"brooklyn-man-convicted-of-fatally-stabbing-philly-dancer-at-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man convicted of fatally stabbing Philly dancer at gas station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Brooklyn man has been convicted in the killing of beloved Philadelphia dancer O\u2019Shae Sibley, who was stabbed to death at a New York City gas station in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=741\">A new local improvement district may be needed to care for the Chinatown Stitch cap over I-676<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Dmitriy Popov, 20, was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime and other charges related to \u201ctaunting, stabbing, and killing\u201d Sibley, which included \u201churling homophobic and anti-Black slurs,\u201d Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Sibley, 28, was a gay Black man, while Popov, who was 17 at the time of the killing, is white. Popov, who was tried as an adult, faces up to 25 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for June 30. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>While filling up their car with gas on a Saturday night in July 2023 after a trip to the beach, Sibley and four of his friends blasted music by Beyonc\u00e9 and started dancing, according to Joan Myers Brown, founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company and Sibley\u2019s former teacher. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Popov and two associates approached the car and threatened the group with racist and homophobic slurs, telling them they didn\u2019t want to see gay men dancing in their neighborhood, Gonzalez said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>His associates left the gas station, but Popov remained and continued to taunt the group of dancing friends. Ultimately, he stabbed Sibley on the side of his chest with a knife, puncturing his heart, Gonzalez said. He was pronounced dead a short time later at a nearby Brooklyn hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=739\">U.S. home sales surge to the fastest pace this year despite rising mortgage rates and prices<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cO\u2019Shae Sibley moved to New York to pursue his dream of being a dancer and choreographer, and his life was cut short when he was killed by this defendant, who couldn\u2019t stand the sight of O\u2019Shae and his friends just being themselves and living their lives openly as Black gay men,\u201d Gonzalez said, offering his hope that the verdict \u201cwill bring O\u2019Shae\u2019s family, his friends, and the larger community some measure of solace.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A North Philadelphia native, Sibley moved to New York before the COVID pandemic in 2020 and landed a job as a dancer and choreographer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater\u2019s Ailey Extension. He danced in several music videos and performed at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>During a celebration of O\u2019Shea\u2019s life at The Met in Philadelphia in 2023. Otis Pena, who was with Sibley the night he was killed, recalled his friend as authentic and unapologetically himself.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cO\u2019Shae was a beacon of light for a lot of us in our community that was engulfed in darkness,\u201d Pena said then. \u201cBut O\u2019Shae rejoiced. O\u2019Shae was O\u2019Shae.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=737\">Critics say bias is behind N.J. car insurance rates, urge lawmakers to act<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy Popov faces up to 25 years in prison for killing Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station in 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brooklyn man convicted of fatally stabbing Philly dancer at gas station - Corporate Movers USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=743\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brooklyn man convicted of fatally stabbing Philly dancer at gas station - 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