

Blanco Tarantino TV, LLC August 21, 2020 Nelly’s Country Grammar Producer/Insurance Agent Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam Is The Third Suspect Indicted With Sweetie Pie's Tim Norman in Murder-For-Hire Plot /a3pOkUXjbI She was initially facing a maximum 20-year sentence. 2022 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.Īnother person, 39-year-old Terica Ellis, was similarly sentenced to three years in prison last month after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, according to KSDK. Meanwhile, Norman’s insurance agent, Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam, received three years in prison in Nov. The jury will deliberate later this week, after closing arguments.Hill, who took a plea agreement, admitted to authorities that he met with Montgomery’s uncle, James Timothy Norman, on the day of the murder, and added he understood that Norman wanted Montgomery dead. Norman reportedly testified for several hours but only faced a short cross-examination. Waiel Yaghnam pleaded guilty in July 2022 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.

Memphis-based exotic dancer, Terica Ellis, was accused of setting up Andre by tipping off the others to his location. The gunman, Travell Hill, pleaded guilty in June 2022 to one count of murder-for-hire and one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. There were three other people indicted in the conspiracy. Norman reiterated on the stand that at no point did he want to harm or murder his nephew.įederal prosecutors alleged that Norman plotted Andre’s murder in order to collect the $450k in insurance benefits, as he was named the sole beneficiary. Louis on March 13 or 14 to visit the restaurants and make bank deposits, his normal duties.Īndre was gunned down on March 14, 2016, at the age of 21. He testified that he made plans to fly back to St. Norman said that he was notified on March 6. Norman explained that they hired a private investigator to locate Andre, who returned to St. Norman accused his nephew, who left the area shortly after the break-in. Robbie told police that Norman and Andre were the only two people who knew her security codes.

That same month, someone broke into Robbie’s home and stole more than $200k in jewelry and cash. In June 2015, Norman moved to Los Angeles to work in a new Sweetie Pie’s restaurant. By 2015, Andre had dropped out of production school and moved out of his apartment, which led to the family financially cutting him off. He claimed that he didn’t want Andre to know that he could pull funds from the policy for his personal use. Norman said that there was an understanding in place that he would own the policy and pay the premiums. Norman later took out a life insurance policy for Andre, with the help of Waiel Yaghnam, a famous music producer turned insurance agent. He told the court that he paid for Andre to attend a music production school, allowed him to use his vehicles, and supplied him with an allowance.

Norman said that after Andre moved back from Texas a second time, he set him up and paid for his apartment. Norman told the court that he mentored his nephew and worked to include him in the show’s narrative. Meanwhile, after relocating from Texas, Andre Montgomery was finishing high school in St. In 2011, Norman became the manager of the “Mangrove” location on Manchester Avenue in Tower Grove. He began managing the restaurant in 2010, the same year cameras began filming Season 1. Norman spoke about his upbringing on the stand, which included working at the soul food restaurant chain. The show starred Norman’s mother, Robbie Montgomery, a once-famous singer and grandmother to Andre.
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Norman and his nephew both appeared as cast members on Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s, a reality TV show which debuted on OWN in October 2011 and ended in 2018. Norman, 43, claimed that he didn’t know who gunned down his nephew until the shooter pleaded guilty, earlier this summer. “Did you have anything to do with the murder of Andre Montgomery?” defense attorney Michael Leonard asked. Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s star, Tim Norman took the stand in his own defense in a St Louis courtroom on Tuesday, denying all involvement in the 2016 murder-for-hire plot that took the life of his nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr.
