Dallas court reporting / analysis ·
MO3’S SHOOTER GOT LIFE. NOW YELLA BEEZY’S FRIEND IS SET TO TESTIFY.
The murder verdict answered who shot MO3. It did not decide the separate accusation against Yella Beezy. Another witness arrangement and an October 26 jury-selection date are now part of that fight.
Kewon White has already been convicted of capital murder in the killing of Dallas rapper MO3. On September 4, a Dallas County jury found him guilty, and he received life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The verdict did not finish the case. Markies Conway, the Dallas artist known as Yella Beezy, still faces a separate capital-murder-by-remuneration charge. Prosecutors allege he financed MO3’s killing. Conway has pleaded not guilty. His alleged role has not been proved at his own trial.
A separate reported cooperation arrangement involving a man described as Conway’s childhood friend may become part of the prosecution. And White is challenging his own conviction through a motion for a new trial that alleges juror misconduct.
This account distinguishes the findings against White from the allegations still facing Conway. The latest publicly reported jury-selection date is October 26, 2026. It is a schedule, not a guarantee that the case cannot move again.
The verdict and the allegation that remains
MO3, born Melvin Noble, was shot and killed on November 11, 2020, during an encounter on Interstate 35E in Dallas. White was tried in a case that involved surveillance recordings, phone records, messages, financial evidence, lyrics and witness testimony.
The jury convicted White in September. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth’s trial coverage details the evidence and competing arguments. A conviction for the gunman does not automatically establish whether another defendant ordered or paid for the killing.
Conway has been charged in that separate alleged arrangement. Devin Brown has also been charged in connection with the alleged plot. Neither man’s guilt is established by White’s verdict.
On October 8, White’s attorneys sought a new trial, alleging that a juror repeatedly slept through testimony. FOX 4 reported that the judge had not ruled on that motion. These are defense allegations, not a finding of juror misconduct. White remains convicted and sentenced unless a court changes the judgment.
Conway’s defense previously obtained a continuance to review trial material and address witness availability. NBC 5 reported the September postponement; subsequent court-schedule reporting identifies October 26 as the next jury-selection date. FVTV has not independently obtained a newer Dallas County docket order.
What does a $40,000 withdrawal prove?
Detective Eric Barnes testified in White’s trial that Conway withdrew $40,000 on November 20, 2020, nine days after MO3 was killed. Investigators regarded the timing as consistent with their theory of a payment. The withdrawal by itself does not establish who received money, where it went or whether White was paid.
During cross-examination, White’s lawyer pressed Barnes about Conway’s earlier large cash withdrawals, including one involving $60,000 months before the killing. FOX 4’s September 3 courtroom reporting says the detective acknowledged he could not account for where the withdrawn funds went.
For prosecutors, the transaction could be one element of a larger circumstantial case. For defense attorneys, those gaps matter. That dispute is for Conway’s jury to evaluate, not a verdict the public can assign from a bank number.
In a post-conviction interview covered by XXL, White denied that he was paid to kill MO3. That denial is also a claim subject to scrutiny, not conclusive proof for either side.
A childhood friend and a separate federal deal
Theodore Thomas, known in the Dallas music scene as Jose Bodega, reportedly has a longstanding personal and musical connection with Conway. Accounts of an October 6 hearing describe a cooperation agreement connected to Thomas’s separate federal drug case.
According to AllHipHop’s report on that hearing, defense expert Julianna Moore described Thomas’s guilty plea in a drug-conspiracy case, dismissal of a firearm charge and an agreement to cooperate. The exact federal agreement and the scope of any consideration have not been independently reproduced here.
A witness seeking a more favorable legal outcome may have reasons to help prosecutors; that does not automatically make the witness untruthful. Nor does a cooperation agreement make testimony accurate. What Thomas says under oath, if he is called, and how it fits independent evidence will matter far more than an advance headline.
Lyrics, messages and actual evidence
White’s trial also showed why prosecutors’ use of rap lyrics and social-media posts deserves close examination. The state introduced selected records as context for an alleged feud. The defense questioned whether messages investigators linked to a planned killing could also be read as unrelated drug communications.
As FOX 4’s live courtroom reporting recounts, the defense said certain messages did not explicitly mention murder. An evidence ruling permitting lyrics or posts at trial is not the same thing as finding that a lyric is a real-life confession.
The distinction between performed persona, private communication and corroborated action remains central as the next defendant prepares to defend himself.
MO3 was an artist before he became a court case
MO3 had a voice, a catalog and a growing audience before his name became a court caption. That matters in this story because the evidence and legal process are meant to address the killing of an actual person, not merely a dispute between famous names.
The state now has a conviction against the man found to have carried out the shooting. It still bears the burden to prove its separate accusation against Conway beyond a reasonable doubt. His plea is not guilty, and the presumption of innocence remains.
The next material developments are whether the October 26 jury-selection date holds, whether Thomas is called, what jurors are told about his agreement, how the defense challenges the alleged financial trail and how the court handles White’s new-trial motion. Each development calls for evidence rather than rumor.
WATCH THE COMPLETE FVTV DOCUMENTARY
FVTV’s full 22-minute report covers the MO3 killing, Kewon White’s conviction, the allegation facing Yella Beezy and the evidence at issue. This video was already publicly released; it is not a newly staged interview.