The trial is underway for former “Welcome to Sweetie Pies” star Tim Norman, who is accused of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot that left Norman’s 21-year-old nephew Andre Montgomery dead in 2016. However, the disgraced reality star is now claiming that the authorities are behind his arrest due to his involvement with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Riverfront Times reported that a journalist researching a potential podcast about Montgomery’s murder contacted the 43-year-old by letter while he was in custody at St. Genevieve County Jail awaiting trial and received a five-page letter in return.
According to Norman, The “T.V. Dude,” as he reportedly refers to himself in the memos, is being targeted by the government because of his participation in the protests after the police killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.
In the letter obtained by the outlet, Norman wrote, “There were cops on Kim Gardner’s bad cop list after this T.V. dude for years.” He continued, “The Fraternal order has been messing with T.V. dude ever since the Mike Brown stuff…T.V. dude was really out there protesting with a lot of employees. His mom warned him.” Norman made no effort to offer evidence substantiating this claim.
Elsewhere, Norman voiced complaints about life behind bars at the time, sharing, “These guys are always fighting over the T.V. and what’s on it. Literally fighting. I’m too old to be getting into fist fights over watching Jerry Springer.”
As previously reported, Norman was accused of hiring Travell Hill to kill Montgomery outside of a St. Louis, Missouri, apartment complex in 2016. Hill was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and another count of murder-for-hire, to which the 30-year-old pleaded guilty earlier last month in federal court.
Terica Ellis and Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam, two defendants, linked in the murder, have pleaded guilty. The pair were initially charged in August 2020 with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, with several more charges.
Ellis was in a relationship with Norman at the time of the shooting. Yaghnam served as his insurance agent and reportedly helped him take out a policy worth $450,000 on his relative, for which he was the sole beneficiary.
