

A week after the killing, Norman contacted the life insurance company in an attempt to collect on his nephew’s policy, prosecutors said.įederal prosecutors declined to say who was the alleged shooter.īoth Norman and the victim, who was Robbie Montgomery’s grandson, appeared on “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s,” which ran for five seasons on the Oprah Winfrey Network starting in 2011, the St. According to the Riverfront Times, a fourth person has been indicted in the murder-for-hire case against Timothy Norman of the Sweetie Pie’s restaurant in St. Prosecutors say Ellis, who faces the same charge as Norman, later deposited more than $9,000 in cash in various bank accounts. Norman contacted a life insurance company eight days after his nephew’s death. Immediately following the shooting, Ellis placed another call and then began traveling back to Memphis.

Ellis’ phone location placed her near Montgomery at the time of his death, according to the complaint. On the day of the killing, Ellis used a temporary phone to determine Montgomery’s location, then she called Norman. Louis from Los Angeles, where he was living at the time, and Ellis traveled to St. Prosecutors allege in the criminal complaint that in the day’s leading up to Montgomery’s death, Norman flew to St. In 2014, when Montgomery was 18, prosecutors say Norman obtained a $450,000 life insurance policy on his nephew that listed Norman as the sole beneficiary. Louis said in a news release that Norman conspired with a woman, Terica Ellis, of Memphis, Tennessee, in Montgomery’s killing. Louis of conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire, resulting in death. Norman, the 41-year-old son of Sweetie Pie’s owner Robbie Montgomery, faces a federal charge in St. James Timothy Norman, of Jackson, Mississippi, was arrested Tuesday in the March 14, 2016, fatal shooting of his nephew Andre Montgomery, who was gunned down near a park in St. Louis-area soul food restaurant that was the setting for the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of his nephew four years ago. LOUIS (AP) - The son of the owner of a St.
