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Suspect arrested and charged with murder in fatal stabbing of dancer O’Shae Sibley

Content warning: this story includes details a fatal act of violence that readers will find upsetting. A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with murder as a hate crime in connection to the fatal stabbing of O’Shae Sibley. On 29 July, the openly gay professional dancer was stabbed while voguing outside a gas station near Coney Island.  According to witnesses at the scene, O’Shae and his friends were enjoying their evening dancing to Beyoncé’s Renaissance album before a group of men approached them, spewing anti-LGBTQ+ and racial slurs.  Things quickly…

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