Man Convicted of Manslaughter as a Hate Crime in Fatal Stabbing at Gas Station

A jury convicted a man of manslaughter as a hate crime on Monday in the death of O’Shae Sibley, who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station during a confrontation that began with a group of young people shouting racist and anti-gay slurs at the professional dancer and his friends as they vogued to a Beyoncé song.

Dmitriy Popov, 20, who was 17 at the time of the killing, testified at trial that he was just defending himself when he stabbed Sibley, 28, in 2023.

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