#Tim sweetie pies trial#

#Tim sweetie pies trial#

Ellis said Norman paid her $10,000 Hill said he received $5,000 indirectly from Norman after the shooting. Sweetie Pie's murder-for-hire trial starts Tuesday James Timothy 'Tim' Norman is accused of being the mastermind in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr., in 2016. Louis park where he was shot by Travell Anthony Hill on March 14, 2016.Įllis and Norman have both pleaded guilty to their roles in the plot. Prosecutors said they will prove Norman hired an exotic dancer, Terica Ellis, to lure Montgomery to a spot near a St. Attorney Gwendolyn Carroll said Norman tried to a collect on a $450,000 fraudulent life insurance policy that he took out on Andre Montgomery because he was badly in need of money to support a lavish lifestyle. Louis-area restaurant owned by Robbie Montgomery, Norman’s mother and the victim’s grandmother.ĭuring opening statements, Assistant U.S. Louis-based Welcome to Sweetie Pie's reality television shown testified Tuesday that he was not involved in the murder of his nephew James Tim. Norman, who is charged with murder for hire, and Montgomery both appeared on the reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s,” which ran on the OWN Network for five seasons. As the Sweetie Pies family copes with a personal tragedy, Miss Robbie and Tim continue expanding their soul food empire. Norman’s attorneys said during opening statements Tuesday that he was a successful celebrity who was concerned about the safety of his nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr., the St. attention of not only parents Jenae Wallick and Tim Norman, their family and friends. Louis, where prosecutors allege that James “Tim” Norman arranged his nephew’s killing because he needed money from a life insurance policy that he took out on the victim. James Timothy Norman, the owner of a Mississippi Sweetie Pies restaurant, has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in his nephews death. LOUIS (AP) - A murder-for-hire trial involving former stars of the reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” got underway in St.