Yella Beezy Convicted in Mo3 Murder-for-Hire Case, Sentenced to Life Without Parole
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Six years to the day after Dallas rapper Mo3 was shot and killed on Interstate 35, a Dallas County jury decided who set the killing in motion. On Wednesday, November 11, jurors unanimously convicted Markies Conway, the 35-year-old Dallas rapper known as Yella Beezy, of capital murder, finding that he hired the man who killed Melvin Noble. Judge Chika Anyiam sentenced Conway to life in prison without the possibility of parole that same day.
What happened in 2020
Melvin Noble, known to fans as Mo3, was 28 years old when he was killed on November 11, 2020. He was driving on Interstate 35 in south Dallas around midday when, according to authorities, another driver pulled alongside his car and opened fire. Noble died from his injuries that day. The killing happened in daylight, on one of the busiest highways in Texas, and it left Dallas with a case that would take six years to reach a verdict.
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The trial
Prosecutors built their case on a single claim: that Conway paid for the killing. The state argued that Conway gave Kewon White $40,000 to carry it out, and that the murder grew out of a feud between the two artists that prosecutors said had been escalating for years.
The evidence leaned on circumstantial pieces rather than one single proof: DNA evidence, phone messages and records, mapping analysis of locations, and years of detective work. After the verdict, lead prosecutor Tommy Adams credited the jurors and pointed to that investigative work as the backbone of the case.
Conway pleaded not guilty and denied any part in the killing. His defense told jurors the state had not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. After the verdict, defense attorney Toby Shook made clear where this goes next: “We really can’t express the disappointment at the verdict. We’re going to keep fighting. We have excellent appellate points, and that will be the next step in the fight.” In court, Conway was advised of his right to appeal, and he acknowledged it.
Jurors deliberated for several hours on Wednesday before returning the unanimous guilty verdict that afternoon.
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Why the sentence was automatic
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There was no long sentencing fight, because Texas law left very little to decide. Conway was convicted of capital murder by remuneration, the legal term for a murder committed for payment or the promise of payment. For an adult convicted of capital murder in Texas, the sentence is either death or life in prison without parole. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in this case, so life without parole was the only sentence available, and Judge Anyiam imposed it immediately after the verdict. Life without parole means what it says: there is no parole eligibility date waiting at the end of the sentence.
Where the wider case stands
Conway is not the first man sentenced in this case. In September, a separate jury convicted Kewon White, the man prosecutors identified as the gunman, of capital murder, and he received the same sentence of life in prison without parole.
A third defendant, Devin Brown, has been charged in connection with the killing and is awaiting trial. Brown has not been convicted of anything, and his case will be decided on its own evidence, separately from this one.
Conway’s conviction is not the final word on his case either. His attorneys have said they will appeal, which moves the legal fight to a Texas appeals court while he begins serving his sentence.
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The cost, counted plainly
Strip away the stage names and the headlines, and the arithmetic of this case is bleak. Two of the most visible rap artists to come out of Dallas in the last decade are gone from the music. One, Melvin Noble, died at 28, and he has been gone for six years. The other, Markies Conway, left a Dallas courtroom on Wednesday facing the rest of his life in a Texas prison, convicted of paying for the first man’s death. Whatever the appeals court decides, and whatever happens in the case still to come, that arithmetic does not change for the families on either side of the courtroom.
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