A professional dancer, identified as 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, was stabbed to death late Saturday night during an altercation at a gas station in Brooklyn.
The assailant reportedly told the victim and his friends that the young man’s dancing while gassing up his car offended him due to his religion.
Surveillance footage captured the fatal incident that police are now investigating as a hate crime.
Caught-on-video NYC fatal stabbing investigated as possible hate crime: sources https://t.co/9ewomFsIhe pic.twitter.com/456nV4elhG
— New York Post (@nypost) July 31, 2023
From the New York Post:
The video shows four shirtless black and Hispanic men gassing up their car — two of them seen dancing in their swim trunks — when another group standing outside the convenience store starts jawing at them.
The encounter grows increasingly tense as the two groups come face to face and exchange words for several minutes.
The two sides briefly disperse, but are then seen confronting each other again — with a physical fight breaking out in the background, the footage shows.
Law enforcement sources said the suspect, who is Muslim, told the victim and his friends he was offended by the scantily clad dancing.
O’Shae SibleySibley was rushed to the hospital but couldn’t be saved.
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More details here.
“They murdered him, because he was gay, because he stood up for his friends,” a friend who witnessed the incident says in a Facebook Live video. https://t.co/z3okqkxbOj
— Gothamist (@Gothamist) July 31, 2023