Overview
- Kewon White, who has pleaded not guilty, is the first of three men to stand trial for the November 2020 killing of rapper MO3 on Interstate 35E.
- Prosecutors showed surveillance video and called multiple eyewitnesses who described a masked gunman chasing MO3 on the highway and then shooting him.
- A retired medical examiner testified that MO3 suffered 13 rifle wounds and a neurosurgeon said he tried to give the rapper CPR after the shooting.
- MO3’s mother gave emotional testimony about her son’s life to humanize the victim as the state portrays the slaying as a murder-for-hire plot allegedly paid for by Markies Conway with coordination by Devin Brown.
- White’s two-week trial outcome could shape how prosecutors proceed against Conway (Yella Beezy) and Devin Brown because evidence and rulings already permitted for future trials may be affected by the verdict.