Prosecutor gives opening statements in Yella Beezy trial | FULL

November 11th of 2020. We're in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, but for 2020 it was like any ordinary day. People were on I-35 in Dallas going about their day. It's about noon and Melvin Noble is heading northbound. He just left a woman's house who he'd been seeing. Now Melvin Noble was just like us, a citizen of Dallas County, a father and a son. But he was also something else he was not only a locally known but a nationally and internationally known rapper and what you're going to hear is about November 11 and as he drove up that highway how a masked man with an AK-47 style pistol popped out of a Camaro while traffic is going on I-35 just coming up to the Dallas Zoo and let off over 40 rounds from that AK pistol while chasing Melvin Noble down ultimately killing him on that freeway the masked man gets in the car takes off and from there you're going to hear from witnesses that are going to come up here and tell you about the investigation who witnessed the murder you're going to see videos of the offense you're going to see surveillance videos of houses and businesses that capture important individuals in the days following the offense and for the next couple days you're going to see how this murder investigation evolved and how eventually Q1 White becomes a suspect how Devin Brown becomes a suspect and that they are ultimately arrested but that's not really where this story starts because as in the indictment it's not just murder it's a murder for hire and i want you to think what you hear about this evidence is what would cause a man to do that because as we progress in the days and the witnesses and the physical evidence that you see is you're going to hear back in 2017, 2018, 2019 about a feud, a feud between Melvin Noble, also known as Moe 3, and the defendant, Marquise Conway, who goes by the stage name of the other BZ. And you're going to hear how that feud escalates and escalates until that final day of November 11th that ends in a fatality. You're going to hear from a number of witnesses from the ATF, from the FBI, from the Texas Department of Public Safety about all the things that they got warrants for, all the things that they reviewed. You're going to see travel logs. You're going to see text messages. You're going to see videos that have the defendant's own words. You're going to hear from them. You're also going to hear from the victim because this feud from 2017 up until 2020 was being played out in front of everybody, this entire community, state, and country. Everybody saw what was going on and everybody saw what happened and after you hear all this evidence and as we build it up it might not come linear from 2017 to 2020 it's going to come first excuse me 2004 it's going to come in pieces kind of like Miss Figgins talked about yesterday and Borak about that puzzle of the gun right the picture of the gun on the leaves it's going to come in pieces and it might not make complete sense when this witness is saying what they did and what this piece of evidence is. So I'm going to ask for your patience. I'm going to ask that you pay attention, be attentive, listen, look at the evidence, and know that we're building that puzzle and that when we get back up in front of you, you will have the pieces of that puzzle to find the defendant guilty of capital murder