Kewon White has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a Dallas County jury found him guilty of capital murder in the 2020 killing of rapper Mo3, resolving the case against the man prosecutors say carried out the fatal shooting while a separate prosecution against Yella Beezy remains ahead.

White was convicted Sept. 16 following a trial centered on the dramatic daytime killing of Mo3, whose legal name was Melvin Noble, on Interstate 35E in Dallas nearly six years ago.

Jurors deliberated for approximately two hours before returning the guilty verdict. Because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, Texas law mandated that White receive life imprisonment without parole following his capital-murder conviction.

The verdict establishes White's criminal responsibility for the killing after years of court proceedings, but it does not resolve prosecutors' broader theory about why Mo3 was targeted.

Markies “Yella Beezy” Conway is separately accused of arranging the killing and allegedly hiring White to carry it out. Conway has pleaded not guilty, and the allegations against him have not been proven in court.

Mo3 Was Chased Down on a Dallas Freeway

Mo3 was killed on Nov. 11, 2020, in one of the most public shootings involving a prominent rapper in recent years.

Prosecutors said White followed Mo3 as the rapper drove through Dallas before both vehicles eventually stopped on Interstate 35E.

Mo3 got out of his vehicle and began running south on the freeway.

White followed him on foot.

Prosecutors argued that White chased the rapper through traffic while carrying a firearm before opening fire, fatally striking Mo3. Another person who happened to be inside a nearby vehicle was also wounded during the shooting but survived.

Mo3 was 28.

The killing shocked Dallas' hip-hop community, where Mo3 had become one of the city's most recognizable emerging artists through records including “Everybody,” “Broken Love” and his Boosie Badazz collaboration “Errybody (Remix).”

White was arrested approximately three weeks after the shooting.

Federal authorities initially charged him with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The murder prosecution that followed would take years to reach a jury.

Defense Argued Prosecutors Had the Wrong Man

White's attorneys did not dispute that Mo3 had been deliberately pursued and killed.

Instead, they challenged whether prosecutors had proved White was the person seen chasing the rapper on the interstate.

The defense attacked the state's identification evidence and argued investigators had built their case around the wrong suspect.

Prosecutors presented surveillance footage, cellphone evidence and other records they said tracked White's movements before and after the killing. They argued that the evidence established a chain connecting him to the pursuit and ultimately to Mo3's death.

The jury ultimately accepted the prosecution's case.

White was found guilty of capital murder, leaving the court with no conventional sentencing range to consider. With the death penalty off the table, life without parole was mandatory.

Yella Beezy Still Faces His Own Capital-Murder Trial

White's conviction now places additional attention on the separate case against Dallas rapper Yella Beezy.

Conway was arrested in March 2025 after a Dallas County grand jury indicted him on a capital-murder charge alleging murder for remuneration—the Texas legal term for a killing carried out in exchange for payment or the promise of payment.

Prosecutors allege Conway hired White to kill Mo3.

Conway has pleaded not guilty.

His attorneys have rejected the state's allegations and maintained that he was not responsible for Mo3's death. His case is separate from White's, meaning White's conviction does not establish Conway's guilt.

Prosecutors will still have to prove the allegations against Conway beyond a reasonable doubt before a separate jury.

Jury selection in Conway's trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 14, with the proceeding expected to become the next major chapter in the nearly six-year investigation into Mo3's killing.

A Nearly Six-Year Road to a Verdict

White's conviction brings one portion of a case that began on a Dallas freeway in November 2020 to a decisive conclusion.

Mo3's death came during a period when his career was expanding well beyond Dallas. His melodic combination of singing and street-oriented rap had helped him build a large regional following, while his relationship with Boosie Badazz exposed his music to a broader national audience.

His posthumous album Shottaz 4Eva arrived in 2021 and included “Outside (Better Days),” featuring OG Bobby Billions, which became one of Mo3's biggest records after his death.

For years, however, the criminal cases surrounding his killing remained unresolved.

White will now spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury concluded that prosecutors proved he was the gunman who chased Mo3 down Interstate 35E and killed him.

The broader prosecution is not finished.

The state will next attempt to prove its allegation that White was not acting alone, but was carrying out a killing allegedly arranged by Yella Beezy.

Conway maintains his innocence.

His upcoming trial will determine whether prosecutors can prove that second—and still disputed—part of their theory surrounding Mo3's murder.