{"id":245046,"date":"2026-05-27T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:40:29","slug":"man-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-oshae-sibley-in-brooklyn-expected-to-testify-at-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245046\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of fatally stabbing O’Shae Sibley in Brooklyn expected to testify at trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man who prosecutors say killed professional dancer O’Shae Sibley<\/a>\u00a0at a Brooklyn gas station is expecting to take the stand at his trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dmitry Popov, who was 17 at the time, allegedly stabbed Sibley<\/a> in July 2023. Sibley, who was 28, was dancing with friends while pumping gas at the station in Midwood.<\/p>\n

Sibley and his friends were returning from the beach when he got into a heated argument with Popov, according to officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NYPD said Popov made homophobic and racist comments towards them before the argument turned physical.<\/p>\n

Sibley was stabbed in the chest and later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Popov is being charged as an adult with second-degree murder as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

Who was O’Shae Sibley?<\/p>\n

Sibley was a well-known dancer who was part of the ballroom community. He was a professional dancer featured in music videos and performed at New York City’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Originally from Philadelphia<\/a>, he got his start at Philadanco! at just 14. He moved to New York to pursue his dance career and also dance with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.<\/p>\n

“Just a ball of light”<\/p>\n

Other dancers, performers and\u00a0community members<\/a> across the city and country mourned his death.<\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0posted about his death on her website, and Spike Lee also posted a tribute on his Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crowds gathered at Pier 46, the East Village and the LGBT Community Center in the West Village, days after the incident.<\/p>\n

“Just a ball of light. Just like he was. I want him to be remembered just the way he was,” Sibley’s father, Jake Kelly, said.<\/p>\n

In August 2023, his younger sister, Destineh Kelly, said she wanted justice for her brother.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to go to trial because my brother didn’t deserve this,” she said. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who prosecutors say killed professional dancer O’Shae Sibley\u00a0at a Brooklyn gas station is expecting to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-245046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}