Man Convicted of Killing Dancer O'Shae Sibley in Brooklyn Sentenced to 20 Years

Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing NYC Vogue Dancer

A photo of late professional dancer O'Shae Sibley attending a class at the Ailey Extension's drop in program (photo Whitney Browne for Ailey Extension, courtesy Ailey Extension)Nearly three years since the attack, Dmitriy Popov was handed a 20-year sentence today, July 16, over the fatal stabbing of Black gay professional dancer O'Shae Sibley at a gas station in Midwood, Brooklyn. The sentencing comes after Popov was convicted of manslaughter as…

Man convicted in O’Shae Sibley hate crime killing sentenced to 20 years in prison

Dmitriy Popov fatally stabbed the gay Black dancer after confronting him and his friends as they vogued at a Brooklyn gas station.

Man convicted of killing dancer O'Shae Sibley in Brooklyn sentenced to 20 years

Dmitriy Popov, 20, was convicted of stabbing and killing O'Shae Sibley, 23, at a Brooklyn gas station in 2023.

He killed a Black gay man for dancing to Beyoncé. Now he’s going away for a long time.

A judge on Thursday sentenced 20-year-old Brooklyn man Dmitriy Popov for first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime after he stabbed 28-year-old gay dancer O’Shae Sibley to death in a gas station on July 29, 2023. Popov committed the crime when he was 17 and claimed self-defense, but he was tried as an adult. “My brother should not have been killed. He did nothing wrong,” Dezirah Kelly, one of Sibley’s sisters, told the judge during court hearing…

Man Gets 20 Years In Hate Crime Killing Of Gay Dancer

Gothamist reports: A judge sentenced a 20-year-old Brooklyn man to 20 years in prison Thursday after he was convicted of a hate crime for fatally stabbing a Black, gay man at a Midwood gas station in 2023. A jury found Dmitriy Popov guilty of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime and other charges for stabbing O’Shae Sibley, 28. Jurors acquitted him of murder. Popov was 17 at the time of the stabbing, but Brooklyn prosecutors tried him as an…

Man convicted of killing dancer in anti-gay attack at Brooklyn gas station sentenced

A sentencing hearing is underway in Brooklyn for the man convicted in the fatal stabbing of a Black dancer, O'Shae Sibley, in 2023.