Overview
- Jurors began deliberations Friday after both sides rested and delivered closing arguments in the trial of Kewon White, who is accused of chasing and fatally shooting Dallas rapper Mo3 in November 2020.
- Prosecutors presented a financial and digital trail that they say links Yella Beezy to the plot, including a $40,000 cash withdrawal, phone texts with coded language, a jail call in which White referenced being paid, and concert footage placing White onstage with Yella Beezy.
- The defense challenged the financial narrative by showing through cross-examination that the $40,000 withdrawal was part of a routine pattern of large monthly cash pulls, undermining the claim that the transaction alone proved payment for a hit.
- Yella Beezy remains indicted on a separate capital-murder charge, is on house arrest with bond reduced, and is scheduled to stand trial on September 14, a date prosecutors say will follow the factual record developed in White’s case.
- The cases have raised wider questions about using rap lyrics, social media and other artistic material as courtroom evidence and the outcome could shape how courts weigh music and digital traces in future violent‑crime prosecutions.