The fatal stabbing of a New York City dancer who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station hours after attending a Beyoncé concert is being investigated as a possible hate crime, CBS News reports.

On July 29 (Saturday), O'Shae Sibley and his friends got into an argument with a group of men, surveillance footage shows. Witnesses on the scene said that Sibley and his friends were dancing and voguing when a man allegedly made homophobic comments toward them. The confrontation led to Sibley being stabbed in his torso. He was rushed o a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

As of yet, no arrests have been made, but sources close to the situation said that the NYPD has identified a suspect on Tuesday (August 1).

Sibley's family and friends are shocked at his sudden, tragic death. A known dancer, he would often perform for his neighbors.

"I'm still in shock. Each time I hear the door, I keep looking for O'Shae to come out," Sibley’s neighbor Beckenbaur Hamilton said.

“They were dancing. They were filling up on gas, but they were voguing, doing crazy, I can promise you," Hamilton continued."I wasn't there, but I can tell you just from what I saw that's just how they are. He comes out here and stops the music and just starts dancing and voguing and carrying on."

Taking to Facebook Live, Otis Pena, who was a friend of Sibley, said that he saw the fatal encounter.

"They killed my brother right in front of me," Pena said, full of emotion. “Just pumping gas and listening to 'Renaissance' and just having a good time. Y'all killed O'Shae.”

On Instagram, Beyoncé paid tribute to Sibley on Tuesday.

"Rest in power O'Shae Sibley," her Instagram story read.

Since 2021, the number of hate crimes that have been reported is the most since the DOJ began publishing the statistics in 1991.

According to the Justice Department, a hate crime is defined as an act of violence motivated by prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, gender identity, disability,  religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds.