{"id":254742,"date":"2026-06-04T03:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254742\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:04:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-jury-deliberations-continue-in-murder-trial-of-man-accused-of-killing-oshae-sibley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254742\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Jury Deliberations Continue In Murder Trial Of Man Accused Of Killing Oshae Sibley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A jury completed its first full day of deliberations in the murder trial of Dmitriy Popov, the man accused of fatally stabbing O&#8217;Shae Sibley outside a Midwood gas station in 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jurors sent two notes to the judge in the morning, asking for the legal definitions for the charges in the case.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Before lunch, the judge re-read the definitions for all nine counts against Popov, including second-degree murder as a hate crime and manslaughter as a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Popov, who was 17 at the time of the stabbing and is now 20, appeared in court handcuffed and wearing a white button-down shirt. Family members sat behind him in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sibley&#8217;s family and friends were also present as they awaited a verdict.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It\u2019s been three years since the deadly confrontation in July 2023. Prosecutors say Sibley and a group of friends were dancing after returning from the beach when Popov and his friends began shouting homophobic and racist slurs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Popov ended up fatally stabbing Sibley in the chest with a knife.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Defense attorneys argue that Popov acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deliberations are scheduled to resume on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jury completed its first full day of deliberations in the murder trial of Dmitriy Popov, the man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-254742","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\/254742","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=254742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}