Lawyer says suspect, charged with hate crime, may argue self-defense in dancer's death
A 17-year-old has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated murder in a stabbing that followed a clash over men dancing.
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A 17-year-old has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated murder in a stabbing that followed a clash over men dancing.
Prosecutors allege the murder of professional dancer O'Shae Sibley was an anti-gay hate crime.
Charged as an adult, Dmitriy Popov was being held without bail after his arraignment in the killing of O'Shae Sibley, a professional dancer. Prosecutors say the killing was fueled by bigotry that was trained on Sibley and his friends as they cut loose to a Beyoncé song while pumping gas at a Brooklyn filling station. Sibley, 28, was stabbed after he and a couple of his friends confronted the defendant “to speak out and protect himself and his friends from anti-gay and anti-Black slurs,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Thursday.
A 17-year-old has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated murder in a stabbing that followed a clash over men dancing.
A 17-year-old has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated murder in a stabbing that followed a clash over men dancing.