Yella Beezy’s New Mugshot Surfaces as He Begins Life Sentence Without Parole for MO3’s Murder
This is the new face of a life sentence. Yella Beezy’s latest booking photo — buzz cut, white shirt, neck tattoos running up to his jaw — has surfaced as the Dallas rapper begins serving life in prison without parole for the 2020 murder of MO3.
On Wednesday, November 11, a Dallas County jury unanimously convicted Yella Beezy, real name Markies Conway, of capital murder in the death of fellow Dallas rapper MO3, real name Melvin Noble. Prosecutors said Conway paid gunman Kewon White $40,000 to carry out the killing after a feud between the two artists that had been building for years.
Judge Chika Anyiam sentenced Conway to life in prison without the possibility of parole immediately after the verdict was read. Because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, that sentence was mandatory under Texas law the moment the jury said guilty.
The timing is the part nobody in that courtroom missed: the verdict landed exactly six years to the day after MO3 was killed. On November 11, 2020, Noble was driving on Interstate 35 in south Dallas when White pulled alongside him, got out with a gun and chased him on foot down the freeway, shooting him as he ran. A bystander inside another car was also shot and survived. Noble died at a hospital. He was 28.
White’s fate was sealed first — a jury convicted him of capital murder in September, and he is also serving life without parole. A third defendant, Devin Brown, is still charged in the case and awaiting his own trial.
Conway pleaded not guilty, and his defense argued the state built its case on speculation rather than proof — at closing, prosecutors played jurors a clip of Conway talking in an interview about getting his “lick back.” His legal team says they plan to appeal the conviction.
After the verdict, Conway was booked into the Dallas County jail — the booking that produced this new mugshot — and is expected to be transferred to a Texas state prison to serve out the sentence. His girlfriend, D’Andrea Harris, has already spoken out since the verdict, saying the fight is not over.
For Dallas, it closes one of the ugliest chapters in the city’s rap history: a feud that played out in songs and on social media for years ended with one man dead on a freeway, and the other never coming home.
Sources: trial and sentencing reporting by CNN, WFAA and XXL. Booking photo: Dallas County jail.
