41-year-old James Timothy Norman was arrested in Mississippi on Tuesday (8/18) for allegedly setting up a murder-for-hire plot that killed his teenage nephew.
Norman is the son of reality TV star and the owner of Sweetie Pie’s restaurant, Robbie Montgomery. He was charged in a federal complaint, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Missouri.
The complaint states that Norman planned "to use a facility of interstate commerce, namely, a cellular telephone, to commit a murder-for-hire in exchange for United States currency” with an exotic dancer, Terica Ellis, living in Memphis, Tennessee, and others.
Ellis has also been charged in the plot, according to the release.
The release also states that in 2014, Norman got a $450,000 life insurance policy on his 18-year-old nephew, Andre Montgomery, in which Norman was the sole beneficiary.
In the days leading up to Montgomery's murder, the dancer told the victim she was planning to visit St. Louis.
The day before Montgomery's murder, on March 13, 2016, Norman took a flight to St. Louis, Missouri, from his home in Los Angeles, California.
The next day, the two suspects were communicating with each other using burner phones they activated the same day of the murder. The female suspect also used the temporary phone to communicate with Montgomery and learn his physical location.
After finding out where the victim was located, Ellis immediately called Norman. That day, around 8:02 p.m., Montgomery was shot to death, according to the release.
The woman's phone location information places her in the vicinity of the murder at the time of the homicide.
After Montgomery's murder, she called Norman again and traveled toward Memphis, Tennessee, according to the release. She also deposited over $9,000 in cash into multiple bank accounts days after the murder.
A week later, Norman contacted the life insurance company and tried to collect on the policy he had taken out on his nephew, the release said.
Photo: Madison County Detention Center