Neurosurgeon Describes Witnessing MO3’s Fatal Shooting in Yella Beezy Murder Trial

A neurosurgeon who witnessed the fatal shooting of MO3 on Interstate 35 provided harrowing testimony Wednesday in the murder-for-hire trial of Dallas rapper Yella Beezy.

Dr. Randall Graham, a brain and spine surgeon at Methodist Health System, was commuting between two Dallas hospitals when he became an eyewitness to the November 2020 killing.

Graham was driving northbound on I-35 around noon when traffic suddenly slowed to a standstill.

“I remember it was around noon and in 2020 there was quite a bit of construction going on on the highway at that time and that portion of highway is built as is almost like a big overpass where there’s no shoulders. Uh there are guard rails that come by to the lanes at least at that time. Uh that’s what it look like. And so around noon um as I was heading north traffic slowed down to essentially a standill uh which was unusual for that time of day and that day of week um but I thought with construction maybe there was some type of construction related delay at first.”

What happened next unfolded in seconds. Graham heard repeated loud banging noises before seeing a Black male sprinting toward his vehicle on the passenger side.

Moments later, he heard and felt what he described as an explosion. Glass and debris sprayed across his face and neck. A bullet had pierced his windshield.

A second man followed, this one carrying what appeared to be a rifle. The shooter stood near Graham’s passenger-side headlight and fired two or three shots before walking away. Graham immediately realized he’d been shot at and feared for his life.

“I noticed a bullet hole in my windshield. And so I sort of connected that what happened was a bullet flew through my windshield. I think the first thing that went through my head was I thought that my life would probably end that day.”

Graham called 911 while still in his vehicle, describing the active shooting to the dispatcher.

“The first thing I did was I called 911 while I was in the car and I spoke to the dispatcher and described that there was an active shooting occurring on on I described my location as best as I could. And then after um I disconnected with with 911 I pulled my vehicle forward and to the right towards towards the right side right and stop my vehicle there at that point.”

When he exited his car, a group of Hispanic women were screaming in Spanish and pointing to a victim lying on the highway.

Despite being a neurosurgeon rather than a trauma specialist, Graham sprang into action.

“I approached the victim and uh I started doing chest compressions and CPR. I noticed he was still breathing. They weren’t normal breaths. There’s quite a bit of blood. I did notice he had multiple multiple gunshot wounds., So, you know, I did what I thought was best and tried to revive him as best as I could.”

The victim, later identified as MO3, was exhibiting what Graham described as agonal respirations, a critical medical sign.

“Agonal breathing is an involuntary reflex. It looks like someone is irregularly rolled in air and it’s it’s not normal breathing. It’s not actually getting oxygen into the lungs effectively the way that you’re breathing out. And the reason it occurs is when there’s been so much injury or damage to the brain that the very basic respiratory centers of the brain are actually injured and triggering these abnormal breaths in sort of the last ditch attempt to oxygenate the tissues in the body.”

Graham performed CPR for approximately 25 minutes before first responders arrived.

Despite his efforts and medical expertise, the injuries were too severe.

Graham later explained that in his career, he had never seen a patient with such injuries survive, even with immediate hospital care.

The shooting occurred during the commission of a murder-for-hire plot.

Yella Beezy is Markies Conway, is accused of hiring and paying Kewon White to kill MO3.

White was convicted of capital murder in September and sentenced to life without parole. Conway has pleaded not guilty.

A third defendant, Devin Brown Jr., is awaiting trial.

Graham’s injuries from the shooting were treated at the hospital where he worked.

He had glass embedded in his neck and a bullet hole in his windshield, while a large piece of the projectile was later removed from his sun visor.

His testimony provided the jury with a detailed, firsthand account of the violence that claimed MO3’s life.