Rapper Yella Beezy Convicted of Hiring Gunman in Fatal Shooting of MO3 on Dallas Interstate
DALLAS – Rapper Yella Beezy was found guilty Wednesday of hiring the gunman who fatally shot fellow rapper MO3 during a brazen daytime attack on a busy Dallas interstate in 2020.
Yella Beezy, 35, whose legal name is Markies Conway, was unanimously convicted of capital murder by a Dallas County jury in the killing of MO3, whose real name was Melvin Noble. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In September, a jury convicted Kewon White of capital murder for fatally shooting Noble. White also received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors said the killing stemmed from a yearslong feud between Conway and Noble, both of whom lived in Dallas.
According to prosecutors, Conway paid White $40,000 to carry out the shooting.
Noble, 28, was driving on Interstate 35 in south Dallas shortly after noon on Nov. 11, 2020, when authorities said White pulled alongside him. White got out of his vehicle with a gun, prompting Noble to leave his own car and run along the freeway as White opened fire.
Prosecutor Tommy Adams told jurors that White was wearing a mask and fired more than 40 rounds from an AK-47-style pistol while pursuing Noble.
Police said White struck both Noble and a bystander sitting inside a car. The bystander survived, while Noble died at a hospital.
During closing arguments, prosecutors played a video of Conway discussing revenge in an interview and saying he would “get his lick back.” Prosecutor Krystal Biggins compared Noble’s killing with a 2018 roadway shooting that wounded Conway.
In October 2018, Conway was shot while driving on a tollway in Lewisville, a Dallas suburb. Another shooter pulled alongside him and opened fire, striking him three times.
“This was for the world to see,” Biggins said. “Over a rap beef, we are here for capital murder.”
The defense maintained that prosecutors had not proved their case. “This is capital murder and the state has brought you a lot of speculation,” defense attorney John Gussio told jurors.
Noble had more than 800,000 Instagram followers and was best known for a 2019 remix of “Errybody” with Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rapper Boosie Badazz.
Conway is best known for his 2017 single “That’s On Me” and the 2019 song “Bacc At It Again,” recorded with Quavo and Gucci Mane.
