Rapper Yella Beezy arrested, charged with hiring shooter to kill singer Melvin Noble

A famous rapper from Dallas popularly known by his stage name Yella Beezy has been arrested and charged in the alleged case of another rapper. The accused identified as 33-year-old Markies Deandre Conway alias Yella Beezy has been charged with hiring and paying a shooter to kill Melvin Noble, also knows as Mo3.

Noble, a Dallas rapper known as Mo3, was allegedly shot dead more than four years ago on November 11, 2020. The shooter identified Kewon Dontrell White as had chased chased Mo3 on the north–south Interstate Highway 35E (I-35E) in Texas.

White was indicted by a grand jury on March 18, 2025, for the murder of Mo3, whose 2018 hit single "Errybody", made him a famous name in the rap music industry. Wearing a mask and armed with a rifle, White waylaid Mo3's car, chased the rapper on foot after Mo3 stopped and ran out. He then shot dead the rapper with the entire incident captured on cameras.


The Dallas County grand jury charged Yella Beezy for planning the murder and then hiring White to do kill Mo3 for a cash payment. White agreed to commit the crime and eliminate Mo3. He used a gun to fire at and kill Mo3.

Dallas Police arrested Yella Beezy on March 20. He has been kept in the Dallas County Jail.

The accused rapper has had faced legal problems in the past too. He was arrested in 2021 and charged with three charges of sexual assault, endangering a child and unlawful possession of a weapon.

However, he was later acquitted in the case.

Three years before this, he was in 2018 shot at several times inside a car on the Sam Rayburn Tollway in Lewisville.