Yella Beezy released from jail following arrest for capital murder
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Yella Beezy released from jail following arrest for capital murder

Nic Huber

Dallas rapper Yella Beezy was released from jail Friday following his arrest in connection with the 2020 murder-for-hire of rival rapper MO3.

Yella Beezy, whose real name is Markies Deandre Conway, was released from Dallas County Jail on $750,000 bond for a charge of capital murder while remunerating, according to court documents. He was indicted by a grand jury and was arrested by Dallas police a short time later.

Prosecutors believe the “That’s On Me” rapper, along with an unnamed person, paid Kewon White $40,000 following the assassination of his crosstown rival emcee Melvin “MO3” Noble, according to footage from a Thursday bond hearing.

A judge reduced the rapper’s bond from $2 million after his lawyers argued that Conway was not a flight risk, and his grandmother, a retired Dallas County deputy clerk, testified that he could not afford the original bond amount. 

He was arrested March 18 by Dallas police after being indicted by a grand jury for his role in Noble’s death, according to court and jail records. 

He has long been rumored to be involved in the deaths of Noble and Dallas comedian Roy Lee Pate, who died in 2018 following a separate shooting. 

Conway had been involved in a highly-publicized beef with Noble, with the one-time friends dissing each other in songs and viral interviews on podcasts like Say Cheese, No Jumper and DJ Vlad. 

Noble was shot and killed in dramatic fashion November 11, 2020. Dash cam footage taken from a Kroger semi-truck shows a masked gunman chasing Noble on foot, in broad daylight, along a busy interstate near downtown Dallas. He was shot multiple times in the back.

A Dallas neurosurgeon was also shot while driving northbound along the freeway, prosecutors said during the bond hearing.

White, who is also charged for Noble’s death with another man named Devin Brown, is currently serving a nine-year sentence in a Texas prison for firearm charges unrelated to the shooting. 

Two years before Noble’s death, Conway was shot multiple times driving home from a Dallas nightclub in a shooting that remains unsolved. Noble’s posthumous 2021 track “Slide on Em” is rumored to include details about the shooting, according to reports. 

Noble, known for the viral hit “Outside,” which has been used in countless memes since its release, released a collaborative album with rap legend Boosie Badazz months before his death. 

Three after the slaying, Boosie, whose real name is Torrance Hatch, was reportedly shot after attending a candlelight vigil for Noble. The Louisiana rapper was treated at a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. NBC DFW reported Hatch was uncooperative in the police investigation.

Conway, who pled not guilty to the capital murder charge, faces life without the possibility of parole and, in some cases, the death penalty, if convicted.

Nic Huber

Texas

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