Simply once you thought the Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s homicide case was over, new developments have come out. Shadow and Act reported {that a} co-conspirator within the murder-for-hire case was lately sentenced.

Terrica Ellis, a former unique dancer, obtained three years in jail on January 24 for her position within the demise of Andre Montgomery Jr., a co-star of the truth TV present, Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s. Ellis testified she was paid $10,000 by Tim Norman, Montgomery’s uncle, to lure the sufferer to the condominium complicated earlier than a person ambushed him.

In accordance to the St. Louis Put up-Dispatch, Ellis was emotional throughout her listening to, displaying main regret. The 39-year-old requested U.S. District Decide John Ross for leniency.

“I’m so ashamed to be right here on this place,” Ellis stated. She was rapidly interrupted, based on studies, after Montgomery’s mom, Michelle Griggs, shouted, “However you took my child!”

Ross thought of Ellis’ previous as a sufferer of abuse and violence, together with being compelled into prostitution at a younger age. The sufferer’s household was searching for a most sentence.

A number of of Montgomery’s members of the family identified how Ellis’ was a key a part of the hire-for-murder plot. “If she hadn’t performed her half, there’s a chance Andre can be with us now,” Montgomery’s aunt Sandra Mullins stated, in accordance to the St. Louis Put up-Dispatch.

Darren Griggs, Montgomery’s brother, stated Ellis solely noticed his brother as a “greenback signal” earlier than she was caught.

BLACK ENTERPRISE beforehand reported on the headlining case final summer season. With the assistance of insurance coverage agent Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam, Norman issued a $450,000 life insurance coverage coverage on Montgomery again in 2014, naming Norman as the only beneficiary.

The uncle-nephew duo was seen often on the OWN community actuality present, which premiered in 2011.

Norman has maintained his innocence. The St. Louis Put up-Dispatch reported that Norman is due for sentencing subsequent month.