STEPHANIE KEITH/Getty Images via AFP Shae Sibley was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station on July 29 after she was seen dancing in the parking lot. Vigils in his honor are held in New York.
STEPHANIE KEITH / Getty Images via AFP
O’Shae Sibley was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station on July 29 after she was seen dancing in the parking lot. Vigils in his honor are held in New York.
MISCELLANEOUS – Vigils and marches are increasing in his homage. O’Shae Sibley, 28, a black and gay dancer, was stabbed to death with a single stab wound to the chest on July 29 at a Brooklyn gas station. A 17-year-old New Yorker has been arrested and is being prosecuted for this racist and homophobic murder, the city’s mayor and police announced on Saturday August 5.
Since then, this alleged intentional homicide has caused great emotion in the African-American and LGBTQ+ communities of the megalopolis.
The crime filmed by the cameras of the gas station
During a press conference at the scene of the tragedy, the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, and a chief of the municipal police (NYPD), Joe Kenny, announced charges for “hate crime” against the teenager, who surrendered on Friday night. Most of the drama was caught on cameras at the gas station where it happened.
Last Saturday, O’Shea Sibley and other men, seen in shorts and bare chested in these television images, stopped by car at this Brooklyn gas station.
“As they waited to refuel their vehicle, Sibley and his band started dancing to music from their car stereo”, recounted Officer Kenny. At that time, a « violent disputes » break out with other young people. “The band started yelling at Sibley and his friends, belittling him and hurling homophobic slurs at him”said the policeman.
Tributes from Beyoncé and Spike Lee
The alleged attackers “also made hostile remarks to black people, demanding that they simply stop dancing”. The confrontation lasted four minutes until O’Shae Sibley was “stabbed once” to the chest, causing his death an hour later in hospital, according to Mr Kenny’s account.
O’Shea Sibley is known in New York as a professional dancer, including « vogue » (or « voguing »), an urban dance inspired by fashion shows and performed by members of the LGBTQ+ and African-American communities.
Tributes have been held for a week. Singer Beyoncé and filmmaker Spike Lee have particularly praised his memory. On the home page of site web of the star, we can read: « Repose en force O’Shae Sibley ».
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2023-08-06 18:53:29
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