Nearly five years after the fatal shooting of Dallas rapper Mo3, the man accused of pulling the trigger has been returned to Texas to face trial.
Kewon White, 27, was transferred from a federal prison in Florida to Dallas County Jail, where he was booked into the North Tower facility on August 29, 2025, at 8:37 p.m., according to jail records. His return to Dallas comes as the murder case against him and co-defendants moves closer to trial.
Mo3’s death rocked the Dallas hip-hop scene and made national headlines. On November 11, 2020, the 28-year-old rapper was driving on I-35E near the Dallas Zoo when he was chased, shot at multiple times, and killed in broad daylight. Authorities say White was the shooter. Cops later recovered 44 shell casings at the scene.
White was arrested less than a month after a witness provided information linking him to the case.
White received a separate sentence even before facing trial in the Mo3 case. In November 2022, he was sentenced to just under nine years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. That charge stemmed from an August 2020 incident where police say he ran from them on a dirt bike in Lancaster, Texas, and was later found with a 9mm pistol tucked in his pants.
Things took another turn earlier this year when prosecutors tied Dallas rapper Yella Beezy, born Markies Conway, to the case. They allege that Beezy hired White to carry out Mo3’s killing and paid him $40,000 for the job.
Another man, Devin Brown, has also been indicted. He was previously sentenced in 2021 to more than six years in federal prison on unrelated firearm and drug charges.
Court records show that White’s pretrial hearing is set for October 9, 2025, and the full trial is expected to begin in November.
In recent interviews from prison, White has insisted on his innocence, claiming he is being framed. He has also suggested he may reveal information that could alter the course of the case and even floated the idea of pursuing a presidential pardon.
Now, with all three defendants facing their day in court, the high-profile case is set to return to the spotlight nearly five years after Mo3’s killing.
