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Suspect in O’Shae Sibley murder case likely to claim self-defense in voguing dancer’s death at Brooklyn gas station
Mark Pollard, the attorney for Dmitriy Popov, the teen accused of killing a dancer at a Brooklyn gas station, addresses the media on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in New York. - Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/TNS

Suspect in O’Shae Sibley murder case likely to claim self-defense in voguing dancer’s death at Brooklyn gas station

NEW YORK — A teen accused of fatally stabbing a gay Black man during a standoff at a Brooklyn gas station will likely tell jurors he was defending himself, his lawyer said Friday. Dmitriy Popov, 17, has been indicted on murder as a hate crime charges in the July 29 stabbing death of dancer O’Shae Sibley at the Mobil station on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue P in Midwood. Sibley, 28, was killed after a confrontation involving a crowd that objected when Sibley and his friends began dancing and performing vogue moves near the gas pumps. Cops said Popov plunged a knife into Sibley’s chest after s...

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