One of the celebs of OWN’s hit actuality collection Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s was sentenced to life in jail on Thursday, in accordance with AP and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
James “Tim” Norman was convicted on three counts final September associated to the demise of his nephew, who was additionally on the present. Those costs included two federal murder-for-hire counts and one rely of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, in accordance with the Post-Dispatch.
The panel concluded that Norman employed two folks to kill his nephew Andre Montgomery, who was 21, on March 14, 2016. They additionally discovered that Norman later tried to money a $450,000 life-insurance coverage taken out on his nephew months earlier.
The prosecution alleged that Norman paid an unique dancer $10,000 to lure Montgomery to the homicide website. They additional alleged that Norman paid one other man $5,000 to kill Montgomery. Both the dancer and the alleged shooter examined towards the fact TV star.
Family members of the sufferer, together with his mom, Michell Griggs, requested that Norman be sentenced to life in jail, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. A US District handed down two life sentences, calling the murder-for-hire plot “a cold-blooded, extremely premeditated, deliberate execution of your nephew.”