![]() ![]() on March 14, Montgomery texted the address to Ellis, who then passed it to Norman and Hill.Įllis called Hill and told him where Montgomery could be found. Norman told Hill that Ellis would be in touch with further details. Hill, who testified against Norman and pleaded guilty in June to murder-for-hire, agreed to do the job. Several days earlier, Norman had informed Travell Hill, a local drug user, that he wanted Montgomery dead. “I’m here at da studio across from da fairground,” Montgomery texted back. ![]() Ellis then texted Montgomery, writing, “What’s up trying to see you before I leave,” court filings state. ![]() On March 14, Ellis and Norman “purchased pre-paid Tracfone cellular devices at a Walgreens located in the Central West End neighborhood of the City of St. But he claimed he stopped paying when Montgomery eventually stopped showing up for work or class. He said he agreed to pay his rent, and enrolled him in a local music school. Ellis, who also pleaded guilty in July for her role in Montgomery’s death, agreed, according to prosecutors.ĭuring the trial, Norman testified that he had taken Montgomery under his wing about 18 months prior to the killing. Norman had been looking for Montgomery but had been unable to track him down, he said, explaining that he was “upset” with his relative and needed Ellis’ help finding him. Montgomery had introduced himself as a rapper from New Orleans, and the two of them had exchanged phone numbers, Ellis told Norman. Ellis said she had met him at Bottom’s Up, the club where she worked. Louis, where he met up with Ellis at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel.Īfter they had sex, Norman showed Ellis, 33, a picture of his nephew and asked her if she knew him, prosecutors said. On March 13, 2016, Norman flew from Los Angeles, where he lived, to St. Norman had been involved for a few years at that point with Terica Ellis, an exotic dancer in East St. “He ain’t gonna be around much longer,” Norman wrote back. “Man… I’m worried about that thing bro…” he texted the insurance agent. In September 2015, Norman began to express concern about the plan. Norman continued to apply for additional life insurance policies on Montgomery, but was repeatedly denied. “You should have by next Friday,” the insurance agent told Norman in a text message obtained by investigators. The policy also included a $50,000 payout if Montgomery died within 10 years of the policy’s inception. He “conspired with… his insurance agent,” who pleaded guilty in July to participating in the plot, to fraudulently obtain the policy, as there was “no financial dependence or relationship” between him and Montgomery, prosecutors argued.Īfter withdrawing his first application, Norman succeeded in obtaining a $200,000 policy on Montgomery’s life, as well as a $200,000 accidental death rider that would be triggered if Montgomery were to die of something other than natural causes. Montgomery was then 20 Norman was the sole beneficiary. Norman’s scheme began at the end of October 2014, when he secretly took out a $450,000 life insurance policy on Montgomery, according to an indictment charging him with his nephew’s murder. What she couldn’t have known then was that Norman, who starred alongside her and Montgomery on the Oprah Winfrey Network show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s,” had taken out a mid-six-figure life insurance policy on Montgomery 18 months earlier-and that he was worth more to Norman dead than alive. Miss Robbie, founder of popular chainlet Sweetie Pie’s, which has counted Beyoncé’s father Mathew among its investors, said at the time she thought Montgomery’s death had been a setup. When he emerged, Montgomery was killed, according to his grandmother and Norman’s mother, restaurateur Robbie “Miss Robbie” Montgomery. Montgomery, an aspiring rapper, was recording a new track in the studio when he got a phone call from someone asking him to come outside. ![]() Norman was arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi area in August 2020, nearly 4.5 years after 21-year-old Andre Montgomery was found shot to death. Louis jury after 17 hours of deliberation on three federal counts of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit mail or wire fraud, according to court filings. James “Tim” Norman, 43, was convicted Friday by a St. A one-time reality TV personality who gained fame on a show about his mother’s Missouri soul food restaurant has been found guilty of ordering a hit on his own nephew to cash in on a life insurance policy he had taken out on the young man. ![]()
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