A Dallas rapper was chased down a freeway and shot. Prosecutors say a rival rapper paid for it.
Just before noon on November 11, 2020, Dallas rapper MO3 — Melvin Noble, 28, best known for his 2018 single "Errybody" — was driving north on Interstate 35E through Oak Cliff when a black Chevrolet Camaro pulled alongside him. A masked man with a rifle got out. Noble ran south down the freeway on foot and was shot multiple times; an innocent bystander sitting in his own car was also hit and survived. Noble died at the hospital.
This video follows the case from the Dallas Police Department's release of the surveillance stills eight days later, to the December 9, 2020 arrest of 22-year-old Kewon Dontrell White, his 2022 federal sentence of 105 months for being a felon in possession of a firearm, the April 2021 murder charge against Devin Brown, and the March 2025 indictment of rapper Yella Beezy (Markies Conway) for capital murder while remuneration — the Texas term for murder-for-hire. It covers the pretrial fight over whether rap lyrics could be played to a jury, and the July 2026 ruling that excluded ten of Yella Beezy's songs but allowed "Keep It in the Streets," a redacted "On Ya Head," and MO3's "2 Nineteen."
Then the trial: Detective Eric Barnes's testimony that the Camaro sat outside the Oak Cliff apartment where Noble spent his last night for roughly 18 hours; the phone records; the surveillance video prosecutors said showed White burning clothes; Cedric Bradley's testimony that White bragged about "the work on the freeway"; the $40,000 cash withdrawal from Conway's account nine days after the killing; the defense's argument that the state never proved anyone paid White; and the verdict after about three hours of deliberation — guilty of capital murder, life without parole.
Markies Conway and Devin Brown have both pleaded not guilty. Neither has been tried, and both are presumed innocent.
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FACTUAL SOURCES - Dallas Police Department, DPD Beat, "Homicide Investigation on RL Thornton Freeway," original post Nov. 11, 2020 with updates Nov. 19, 2020, Dec. 9, 2020 and Apr. 24, 2021 (case 201916-2020: time and location of the shooting, the chase on foot southbound, the wounded bystander, the black 2014-2015 Camaro, the $5,000 Crime Stoppers reward, the arrest of Kewon Dontrell White, 22, into federal custody, and the murder charge against Devin Maurice Brown, 28). - U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas, "Man Awaiting Murder Trial Sentenced to Almost Nine Years for Gun Crime," Nov. 8, 2022 (the Aug. 16, 2020 Lancaster dirt-bike stop, the 9mm pistol, prior felonies, May 2022 guilty plea, 105-month sentence by U.S. District Judge Karen Gren Scholer). - CBS News Texas, "Kewon Dontrell White Arrested For Murder Of Dallas Rapper Mo3," Dec. 9, 2020 (witness tip; the Camaro; "Errybody") and "Jury deliberates in Kewon White murder trial in rapper Mo3's 2020 killing," Sept. 4, 2026 (Conway's Mar. 20, 2025 arrest; White did not testify; Dallas County Jail booking photos of White and Conway). - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, "Judge allows some Mo3, Yella Beezy rap lyrics to be heard in murder-for-hire trial," July 28, 2026 (the ten excluded songs, "Keep It in the Streets," the redacted "On Ya Head," "2 Nineteen," the wounded bystander, White tried first) and the trial live blogs Aug. 26 – Sept. 4, 2026 (witness Randall Graham's vest-and- mask description; songs played; phone and bank records; verdict after a little more than three hours; life without parole). - FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth live blog, Sept. 4, 2026 (closing arguments by ADA Tommy Adams and defense attorney Bree West; verdict; reaction). - Rolling Out, "Kewon White convicted as two trials still loom," Sept. 5, 2026 (Judge Chika Anyiam; mandatory sentence; Noble's mother's statement to White). - HotNewHipHop, Sept. 1 and Sept. 2, 2026 (Cedric Bradley's testimony; Det. Eric Barnes on the 18-hour wait, the Nov. 10 return from California, the hospital instruction, and ruling out Yella Beezy and Trapboy Freddy as the shooter), citing AllHipHop and NBC 5. - High On Films explainer, Sept. 5, 2026, citing the Dallas Morning News (surveillance of White's clothing and burning clothes; phone route; the $40,000 withdrawal dated Nov. 20, 2020 and the reporting that the state did not claim the whole sum was payment; Sept. 14 trial date reported for Conway; Kroger delivery-truck dashcam). - WFAA, Dallas Morning News and Billboard, March 2025 (indictment Mar. 18, arrest Mar. 20, bond reduced from $2 million to $750,000, house arrest and ankle monitor, surrendered passport; feud dating to 2017). VISUALS - MO3 (Melvin Noble): still from a 2019 interview by Next Up Online, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — opening composite, solo slides, closing slide, thumbnail and Facebook teaser card. - Kewon White: Dallas County Jail booking photo (via CBS News Texas). - Markies Conway (Yella Beezy): Dallas County Jail booking photo, March 2025 (via CBS News Texas), center panel cropped from a blurred-edge composite. - Gunman and Camaro surveillance stills: released by the Dallas Police Department, Nov. 19, 2020 (DPD Beat) — public record. - Interstate 35E through Oak Cliff; apartments on Zang Boulevard, Oak Cliff; the I-35E/I-30 interchange and the Frank Crowley Courts Building seen from Reunion Tower: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (illustrative — not the crime scene or the actual complex). - $100 bills: CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (illustrative). - Evidence team (IAEA Imagebank, CC BY 2.0), handcuffs (U.S. Army, public domain), gavel (CC BY 2.0), scales of justice (Bhullargraphic, CC BY-SA 4.0), laptop (Unsplash/CC0), phone (CC0), prison cell block (public domain): illustrative stock reused from earlier videos in this series, all via Wikimedia Commons. - NOT used: NBC/FOX/CBS courtroom video stills, Getty Images photographs of MO3 or Yella Beezy, or any network-produced broadcast footage. AMAZON LINKS - Real, live, tagged link built 2026-09-06 with scripts/amazon_link.py using AMAZON_ASSOC_TAG=truecrimecases-20. Rung 3 (case-scoped tagged search URL): no book has been written about this case. The rung-2 candidate "Rap on Trial" (ASIN 1620973405) could not be verified by scripts/verify_book.py on 2026-09-06 (Amazon returned a CAPTCHA page on three attempts), so per the never-link-an-unverified-ASIN rule it was not used. No placeholders.