A Dallas County jury unanimously convicted rapper Yella Beezy — real name Markies Conway, 35 — of capital murder by remuneration for hiring the gunman who killed rapper MO3, real name Melvin Noble, on Interstate 35 in south Dallas on Nov. 11, 2020.

He was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The guilty verdict landed on the sixth anniversary of Noble's death, a timing lead prosecutor Tommy Adams described as meaningful, saying he believes in a higher power and that "God has a plan."

Adams told reporters the jurors "got it right" and called it one of the most challenging cases of the last six years.

The surprise is how the case broke: the entire case against Conway was circumstantial, and the defense had argued for days that investigators suffered "tunnel vision" and built the case on assumptions, rap lyrics, and speculation.

According to FOX 4, jurors deliberated roughly six hours, asked to review rap lyrics, FBI reports, and financial statements, and returned a unanimous verdict anyway.

Prosecutor Krystal Biggins framed the courtroom stakes bluntly during closing arguments: "This was for the world to see. Over a rap beef, we are here for capital murder."

A murder-for-hire conviction of a charting rapper over a years-long beef is the development true-crime watchers doubted would come.

Prosecutors released video of the 2020 attack during a bond hearing, and it became central to the case. Noble, 28, was driving on I-35 around noon when gunman Kewon White pulled alongside him, stepped out holding a gun, and chased Noble down the freeway on foot after Noble fled his vehicle.

Prosecutor Tommy Adams said White wore a mask and fired more than 40 rounds from an AK-47-style pistol; according to FOX 4, Noble was shot 11 times, and a bystander in a car was wounded but survived. Noble died at a hospital.

The footage made the ambush, in the shooter's words a daytime attack on a busy interstate, impossible to abstract away.

Prosecutors said Conway paid White $40,000 for the shooting over an escalating yearslong feud between the two Dallas men.

In closing arguments, the state detailed what Biggins called an "Ocean's 11"-style plot using tipster Devin Brown and middleman Jerry Johnson to funnel payments to White, pointing to wire transfers, seized cash, and testimony from Cedric Bradley.

Prosecutors also showed jurors an interview clip of Conway saying he would "get his lick back," drawing a parallel to the October 2018 tollway shooting in Lewisville in which Conway was hit three times. Prosecutor Tommy Adams distilled the theory for jurors as "motive, money, and the man."

The defense never denied the ambush — it denied the link to Conway.

Attorney Toby Shook told jurors the state's case was built on "assumptions and lies," highlighting conflicts in star witness Theodore Thomas's testimony and, per FOX 4, cell data placing Conway in Frisco rather than at an alleged barbershop meeting.

Shook also attacked the financial narrative, arguing Conway routinely withdrew large sums in crisp $50 and $100 bills for family expenses while White carried rubber-banded, low-denomination street cash.

Attorney John Gussio argued both rappers were successful and lacked motive, and pointed jurors toward Brown, who FOX 4 reports logged 46 calls with White around the shooting and had his own intense dispute with Noble.

Conway is booked into the Dallas County jail pending transfer to a state prison, per FOX 4, and the fight is not over: Shook told reporters he is already planning an appeal, saying the defense has "excellent appellate points."

White, convicted of capital murder in September, is serving the same life-without-parole sentence and has himself filed an appeal. A third defendant, Devin Brown, remains charged with capital murder and awaits trial.