A flash of blue underwear has become part of prosecutors’ effort to identify Kewon White as the gunman who chased and killed Mo3 on a Dallas interstate nearly six years ago. Complex states that surveillance footage shown to jurors captured a man at a home on Nov. 10 and again on Nov. 11, 2020, with the same blue underwear visible above his pants, an otherwise ordinary detail the state is using as it builds its timeline around White.
The footage from the day before Mo3’s death showed the man outside the residence carrying what appeared to be a firearm. Video from Nov. 11 showed him at the property again, followed by later footage capturing people near a backyard fire. Prosecutors contend clothing connected to the shooting was burned after Mo3 was killed, although testimony surrounding the surveillance has not established that every item seen in the footage was tied to the murder.
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Prosecutors Are Constructing A Difficult Case
The videos also give prosecutors another piece of circumstantial evidence as they try to convince jurors that White was the masked shooter seen pursuing Mo3, whose real name was Melvin Noble, along Interstate 35E on Nov. 11, 2020. Witnesses have described a man emerging from a dark vehicle with a rifle before chasing Noble through traffic. Video played earlier in the trial showed Mo3 getting out of his car and running as the armed man followed him. The rapper was fatally shot, while another motorist was also struck and survived.
White’s legal team has pushed back against the state’s identification theory. Defense attorney Myra McIntosh told jurors during opening statements that prosecutors were relying on assumptions to bridge gaps in their evidence. None of the eyewitnesses who testified during the opening days of the trial directly identified White as the shooter, according to KERA.
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White is the first defendant to face a jury in the alleged murder-for-hire case. Prosecutors accuse Yella Beezy, born Markies Conway, of paying White to kill Mo3 amid a dispute between the two Dallas rappers. Devin Brown is also charged in connection with the killing and is accused of helping coordinate the attack. Beezy has pleaded not guilty and denied involvement. He and Brown are not being tried alongside White.
Moreover, White has pleaded not guilty in Noble’s killing. His capital murder trial is expected to continue into September, with prosecutors attempting to prove that the man captured in the surveillance footage and the masked shooter seen on the highway were the same person.
