Madison County Detention Center
A one-time reality TV personality who gained fame on a show about his mother’s Missouri soul food restaurant was found guilty of ordering a hit on his own nephew to cash in on a life insurance policy he had taken out on the young man.
James “Tim” Norman, 43, was convicted Friday by a St. Louis jury after 17 hours of deliberation on three federal counts of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit mail or wire fraud, according to court filings. Norman was arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi area in August 2020, nearly 4.5 years after 21-year-old Andre Montgomery was found shot to death.
Montgomery, an aspiring rapper, was recording a new track in the studio when he got a phone call from someone asking him to come outside. When he emerged, Montgomery was killed, according to his grandmother and Norman’s mother, restaurateur Robbie “Miss Robbie” Montgomery.