Although Yella Beezy has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Mo3, the Dallas rapper is still facing an outstanding civil judgment of nearly $480,000.
Court documents obtained by Complex reveal that a Dallas County judge ordered Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway, to pay Mo3’s former manager, Brandon Rainwater, $478,200.43. The ruling followed a 2024 civil trial connected to a January 2020 assault outside the V Live nightclub in Dallas.
Signed on Sept. 30, 2024, the judgment awarded Rainwater $331,337.12 in actual damages, including over $281,000 in past medical expenses. He was also granted $25,000 in exemplary damages, $116,511.60 in prejudgment interest, and $5,351.71 in court costs.
The court further imposed an annual post-judgment interest rate of 8.5%, meaning the total amount could continue increasing until the debt is fully paid.
Rainwater maintains that Beezy has yet to settle the amount owed from the civil case. Although the judgment allows legal action to be taken to recover the money, the document does not confirm whether any payments have been made.
The civil lawsuit also came up during Yella Beezy’s capital murder trial. Prosecutors presented surveillance footage they said captured Beezy and Dallas rapper Theodore “Jose Bodega” Thomas assaulting Rainwater outside V Live on Jan. 26, 2020. While testifying, Thomas identified Beezy in the video, telling the court, “That’s Yella.”
Detective Eric Barnes testified that the altercation “shows the ongoing bad blood” between the two camps in the months leading up to Mo3’s murder.
On Wednesday (Nov. 11), exactly six years after Mo3 was fatally shot on Interstate 35 in Dallas, a jury found Beezy guilty of capital murder for allegedly hiring a gunman to kill the rapper, whose birth name was Melvin Noble.
Judge Chika Anyiam sentenced the 35-year-old to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Kewon White, the gunman previously convicted in the case, received the same sentence. Beezy’s attorney, Toby Shook, said the defense plans to appeal the conviction.
“We’re going to keep fighting. We have excellent appellate points and that will be the next step in the fight,” Shook told FOX 4.
