@meghannmcuniff: A Texas firearms examiner testified today that one gun fired the 44 fired cartridge casings found after Melvin "MO3" Noble Jr. was shot to death on Interstate 35 in 2020. Phillip Duong, a forensic firearms and tool mark examiner with the Texas Department Public Safety Crime Laboratory, asked, "Do you mind if I check if it's clear? The bolt's closed" as he took the rifle from Assistant District Attorney Marissa Hatchett this morning (Thursday, October 29) in Markies "Yella Beezy" Conway's murder-for-hire trial in Dallas. "Yes. And just for the record, the deputies did check this yesterday in court. So all firearms have been cleared," Hatchett said. Duong testified about his analyzation process. He said he documents the gun's make, model, serial number, magazine capacity and characteristics such as "the direction of twists of the rifling, how many lands and groove, the barrel length, along with the documented safeties." "Once I deem that the firearm is safe to fire, I'll go ahead and go into the range and generate known test fires," Duong said. He compares his fired casings to the collected casings. "I'll mount them on the comparison microscope, and I'm observing all these class characteristics along with these individual characteristics. I'm noting to see how reproducible these marks are before I compare them to the evidence that was submitted from the crime scene," Duong said. "And so these fired cartridge cases that were found at the scene, these are all fired from the same firearm. Is that correct?" Hatchett asked. "That's correct," Duong answered. The bullet fragments found in Noble's body also "in my opinion ... were all identified as having been fired from the same firearm," he said. #law #crime #court

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Friday 30 October 2026 00:24:57 GMT