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NEW YORK (CBS) — Artists and family members are mourning O’Shae Sibley, a dancer with ties to Philadelphia who was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn over the weekend.

The New York Police Division is investigating the dying of Sibley, a homosexual man, as a potential hate crime.

Police and family members say the 28-year-old Sibley was dancing and vogueing whereas he and his associates have been filling up at a Brooklyn fuel station Saturday.

“They have been dancing,” neighbor Beckenbaur Hamilton advised CBS New York. “They have been filling up on fuel, however they have been voguing.”

Witnesses advised the station they have been dancing when a person walked as much as them and made homophobic feedback. In surveillance video, Sibley is seen arguing with a person. 

Police stated Sibley was stabbed after that argument.

Sibley had moved from Philadelphia to New York to additional his dancing profession. Neighbors and associates advised CBS New York Sibley typically danced in public. 

“Homophobia and phrases can result in ideologies and ideas,” pal Kemar Jewel stated. “And people ideas can lead into actions. And people are the kind of actions that took O’Shae away from this world.”

One other pal Otis Pena stated on a Fb Dwell, “O’Shae was a beacon of sunshine that simply influenced everyone.”

Sibley’s dying is resonating within the worlds of music and dance in addition to the LGBTQ+ group.

The highest of Beyonce’s official web site displayed a tribute to Sibley Wednesday.

“Relaxation in energy O’Shae Sibley,” it learn in white textual content on a black background.

Philadelphia dance group Philadanco stated Sibley had been concerned with them since he was a youngster.

Philadanco issued a press release on Sibley’s dying:

Philadanco want to ship our honest Condolences to the household and family members of O’Shae Sibley. O’Shae was a scholar of the Philadelphia Faculty of Dance Arts at Philadanco because the age of 14 and was additionally in our Apprentice Firm D/2. This information is totally heartbreaking and we imagine nobody deserves to be focused for merely being themselves and residing of their fact. We’re preserving excessive hopes that Justice will likely be served. He will likely be missed dearly. We ask that you just additionally preserve his household and family members in your prayers.  

NYPD continues to be trying to find the suspect, who was final seen sporting a black T-shirt and crimson shorts.