Teen Identified As Suspect In NYC Hate Crime Murder

New York City’s NBC affiliate reports:

A man dancing at a gas station in Brooklyn was stabbed to death after a dispute broke out between two groups Saturday night — and a 17-year-old is now being sought in connection to the shocking death of dancer O’Shea Sibley.

Law enforcement sources have identified the suspect as a teen who remains at large. Law enforcement sources say the suspect fled the scene in a black SUV. Those who knew Sibley as a talented dancer and certainly a friend, have no doubt that his murder was a hate crime.

Witnesses say a back and forth followed after Sibley, who worked with several troupes, started voguing in the style of many LGBTQ ballrooms. As all of this escalated, Sibley was stabbed in the chest, and pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Read the full article. My first report on the murder is here. According the video report below, police have the name of the suspect.

A teen who remains at large, may face hate crime charges in the shocking stabbing death of O’Shea Sibley, a 28-year-old gay man who was voguing at a NYC gas station moments before he was killed.https://t.co/hHbmq2eQ8w

— Denio Lourenço (@iamdenio) August 1, 2023

O’Shea Sibley was killed for dancing. This is the fruit of queerphobic hatred: Deadly violence for no other reason than people living joyfully as themselves.https://t.co/HFPBlshl5D

— Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (@RevJacquiLewis) August 1, 2023

Defend queer Black joy. Dancing is not a crime, and queerphobia has no place in New York. Rest in power O’Shea Sibley. https://t.co/awTRA7zEcI

— Housing Works (@housingworks) July 31, 2023

A Black gay man was killed over an “altercation” because a straight man wanted him to stop voguing.

He was killed.

Over him voguing.

Black queer joy is under attack, not masculinity.

Be clear.

Rest in Peace, O’Shae Sibley.

— Preston Mitchum (@PrestonMitchum) August 1, 2023

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