Key Takeaways
- Yella Beezy faces life without parole after a jury unanimously convicted him of capital murder in Mo3’s killing on the shooting’s sixth anniversary.
- Prosecutors argued Beezy placed a bounty on his rap rival by using several middlemen and coordinating payment to gunman Kewon White.
- White received a life sentence for chasing and fatally shooting Mo3 on Dallas’ I-35 in September, while co-defendant Devin Brown awaits trial.
Yella Beezy could be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of capital murder in the 2020 killing of rival artist Mo3.
A jury reached the unanimous verdict against the Dallas rapper, real name Markies Conway, on Wednesday, landing six years after the of the Nov. 11, 2020 shooting that took the life of rapper Mo3, born Melvin Noble. He was 28 years old.
Convicted of capital murder, Beezy was sentenced to the mandatory term of life without parole, according to FOX 4. Several people were reported to have abruptly exited the courtroom, others wept, and Beezy, 35, was handcuffed and led away.
Prosecutors argued Beezy placed a bounty on Mo3, with co-defendant Devin Brown allegedly sharing the rapper’s location and middleman Jerry Johnson allegedly transferring the money to shooter Kewon White.
According to KERA, neurosurgeon Randall Graham testified that he was in the car behind Noble when the gunfire rang out. Rapper Jose Bodega, who had described the feud to a grand jury, reversed himself on the stand, saying "I made it up," and Anyiam let prosecutors treat him as a hostile witness.
The rift goes back to 2017, when comedian Roy Lee Pate, a friend of Mo3, was assaulted after an exchange with Beezy, per Dallas Observer. Pate was shot at a Dallas gas station in September 2018 and died the following month. Also in 2018, Beezy was shot multiple times inside his white Mercedes on the Sam Rayburn Tollway in Lewisville, and prosecutors claimed Mo3 song “2 Nineteen” hinted he was involved in that attack.
On Nov. 11, 2020, a masked gunman chased Mo3 on foot along I-35 and fatally shot him with a rifle. Beezy was arrested March 20, 2025, and White was convicted of capital murder in September and sentenced to life. Brown, the man the defense pointed to as a perpetrator at trial, is scheduled for his own trial soon, as reported by CBS News Texas.
