Devin Maurice Brown is expected to stand trial in November. Dallas rapper Yella Beezy was also arrested & charged with capital murder in connection with Mo3’s death.
DALLAS — It’s been nearly five years since Dallas rapper Mo3, whose real name was Melvin Noble, was shot and killed on Interstate 35E. Now, one of the men accused of his death is expected to face a jury this fall.
Devin Maurice Brown, originally indicted for murder back in 2021, is facing federal charges including capital murder. According to an indictment filed in March, prosecutors allege Brown was paid to kill Mo3 — and that the person behind the payout was fellow Dallas rapper Yella Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway.
Court records show the trial is expected to begin in early November.
Another man, Kewon Dontrell White, was also accused early on in the case. Police tied him to the shooting in 2020, and like Brown, he was first indicted for murder in 2021.
Prosecutors allege Yella Beezy hired White to carry out the daytime attack on Interstate 35E near Illinois Avenue and Clarendon Drive, just south of the Dallas Zoo. A video presented during Yella Beezy’s bond hearing in March shows a man wearing a ski mask stopping on the highway, exiting a black Chevy Camaro and approaching Mo3’s car with a firearm in hand. Mo3 left his car and ran in the opposite direction. The man chased him, firing several rounds and striking him.
Mo3 was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Brown’s alleged involvement in Mo3’s murder remains unclear. Both men were arrested shortly after the shooting, WFAA previously reported. White is serving a nine-year sentence for a gun crime and is in federal custody, records showed, and Brown is booked in the Dallas County Jail.
Yella Beezy, 33, is charged with “capital murder while remuneration” in connection with Mo3’s murder. That charge happens when “the murder occurs in order to receive a benefit or financial settlement paid upon the death of the victim,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs website.
Yella Beezy has been out on bail since March 28 after a judge lowered his bond from $2 million to $750,000, adding the condition that he have no contact (direct or indirect) with any victim, witness, or co-defendant in the case. He is currently under house arrest.
The case has rocked Dallas’s hip-hop community, as Mo3’s murder has long been suspected to be the result of a rap feud. Although both artists had denied having a conflict.
If convicted, Brown could face life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.