{"id":426739,"date":"2026-09-05T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:08:07","slug":"jury-hands-down-guilty-verdict-in-kewon-white-trial-first-to-face-conviction-in-death-of-dallas-rapper-mo3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426739\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury hands down guilty verdict in Kewon White trial, first to face conviction in death of Dallas rapper MO3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The judge sentenced White to life in prison without parole. Jurors heard closing arguments from both sides on Friday, Sept. 4, after almost two weeks of testimony.<\/p>\n

DALLAS \u2014 A jury has found Kewon White guilty of capital murder in the 2020 killing of Dallas rapper MO3<\/a>, whose legal name was Melvin Noble.<\/p>\n

White was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He is the first person to stand trial in connection with Noble\u2019s fatal ambush shooting on Interstate 35E.<\/p>\n


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Prosecutors allege that White was hired by Markies Conway to murder Noble. Conway is another rapper, known as Yella Beezy, who allegedly was embroiled in a feud with MO3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say White ambushed the Dallas rapper for a promised payment. The defense says the state proved a murder \u2014 but not murder-for-hire. Jurors were shown video of the ambush that showed MO3 jumping out of the gold Honda he was driving before a masked suspect chased him down the freeway with a gun.<\/p>\n

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Noble was shot and killed on I-35E in Dallas on Nov. 11, 2020.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Detective testifies MO3’s killing was ‘planned, premeditated’ as jury watches freeway video<\/a><\/p>\n

“It was planned, premeditated, and based on the evidence that we had from the highway and the hospital, the shooter was intent on killing him,” Dallas police Detective Eric Barnes testified earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Krystal Biggins walked jurors through the state’s account of Noble’s final moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cMelvin Noble was gunned down in broad daylight, running for his life, being fired on by a madman in a mask,\u201d Biggins told jurors.<\/p>\n

Noble was shot 13 times. Investigators recovered 44 cartridge casings. Biggins also highlighted testimony from White’s cousin, who testified that White told him he had shot Noble in the buttocks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s something only the killer would know,\u201d Biggins told jurors.<\/p>\n

White’s conviction comes ahead of the upcoming trial of Markies Conway, the rapper known as Yella Beezy.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors accuse Conway of having a long-running feud with Noble and orchestrating his killing. Prosecutors say Conway withdrew the money two days before a money exchange in Irving that they allege was the payment to White.<\/p>\n

Conway has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judge sentenced White to life in prison without parole. Jurors heard closing arguments from both sides on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-426739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}