HOUSTON — Dallas rapper Yella Beezy has been arrested and charged with capital homicide within the capturing dying of fellow rapper Mo3 on a busy interstate in 2020, in response to court docket data.
Yella Beezy, 33, whose actual identify is Markies Conway, was indicted by a Dallas County grand jury on Tuesday on a cost of capital homicide whereas remuneration. The indictment accuses Conway of hiring a person named Kewon White to homicide Mo3, whose actual identify was Melvin Noble.
The indictment didn’t present info on why authorities imagine Conway employed White to shoot Noble, who additionally lived in Dallas.
Court docket data didn’t checklist an legal professional who might converse on behalf of Conway. Calls and emails to representatives for Conway weren’t instantly returned.
In a Fb publish after Conway’s arrest, Noble’s mom, Nichole Williams Noble wrote, “Justice for my child!!!!”
The 28-year-old Noble was driving on Interstate 35 in south Dallas on Nov. 11, 2020, when authorities allege White drove up subsequent to him and bought out of his automobile with a gun in his hand. Noble bought out of his automobile and commenced working south on the freeway as White shot at him, authorities stated. Noble and a bystander who was inside a automotive have been shot by White, police stated. The bystander survived however Noble died at a hospital.
White and one other man, Devin Brown, 32, have been later indicted in Noble’s dying. Their instances associated to Noble’s dying stay pending. White, 26, was sentenced in 2022 in a separate case to almost 9 years in federal jail after pleading responsible to a cost of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Conway is finest recognized for his 2017 single, “That is On Me” and the 2019 tune “Bacc At It Once more” with Quavo and Gucci Mane.
In October 2018, Conway survived being shot whereas driving on a tollway within the Dallas suburb of Lewisville when somebody pulled up subsequent to him and opened hearth, hitting him thrice.
Noble had greater than 800,000 followers on his Instagram web page and was finest recognized for a 2019 remix of the tune “Errybody,” with Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rapper Boosie Badazz.
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