Prosecutors say Ellis later deposited more than $9,000 in cash in various bank accounts. The complaint said that immediately following the shooting, Ellis placed another call and then began traveling back to Memphis. Prosecutors allege that Ellis's phone location information placed her near the shooting scene at the time of the killing. "Immediately after learning Montgomery's location, Ellis placed a call to Norman." One day later, Ellis used the temporary phone "to communicate with Montgomery and learn his physical location for the purpose of luring Montgomery outside," according to the news release. They say the two communicated using temporary cellphones activated that day. Louis from Los Angeles, where he was living at the time, and Ellis arrived from Memphis. Prosecutors allege that the day before the killing, Norman flew to St. Authorities have not said who they believe shot the victim, but Yaghnam is not charged in the shooting. Norman and Ellis - described by prosecutors as an exotic dancer - each face a federal charge of conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire, resulting in death. Montgomery was shot to death on March 14, 2016, near Fairground Park in St.
Norman, now 41, became the sole beneficiary of of his nephew's life insurance policy in 2014, according to prosecutors.
Yaghnam and Norman made false statement on life insurance applications for Andre Montgomery in which they lied about Montgomery's net worth, income and other information, prosecutors allege. Yaghnam, who is not charged in the alleged murder-for-hire plot, is an insurance agent, but in 2002 he was one of the producers of "Nellyville," which sold more than 6 million copies in the U.S. Louis, with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Louis announced Thursday that in addition to the murder-for-hire charge Norman was already facing, a grand jury charged him and 42-year-old Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam, of St. The slain man's uncle, James Timothy Norman, of Jackson, Mississippi, and an alleged co-conspirator, Terica Ellis, of Memphis, Tennessee, were arrested earlier this week on charges alleging they were involved in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the shooting death of 20-year-old Andre Montgomery near a St. Louis-area soul food restaurant was the setting for the reality show "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" has led to fraud charges against his uncle and a man who helped produce a hit album for the rapper Nelly. Clad in an orange penitentiary-issued jumpsuit, with long braids and a white face mask, Ellis began weeping when it was clear she would not be released on bail.O'FALLON - An investigation into 2016 killing of a man whose grandmother's St.
Louis County for trial.Įllis, who is currently being held in a detention facility in Mason, Tennessee, did not speak during the hearing. Marshals, who would transfer her back to St. Magistrate Judge Charmiane Claxton, who presided over the Wednesday hearing, told Ellis she would stay in the custody of the U.S. Norman appeared alongside several of his family members in the hit show "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" that ran on the Oprah Winfrey Network from 2011-2018. Montgomery was the nephew of reality television star James "Tim" Norman. She was arrested in Southaven, Mississippi, in mid-August. Louis, will remain in federal custody following a judge's decision to deny bail.Ī criminal complaint was filed against the 36-year-old mother of two in July that named her as a participant in a conspiracy to have Montgomery killed. Terica Ellis, the Memphis woman arrested for her alleged role in the 2016 killing of Andre Montgomery in St.
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