On the night of March 14, 2016, 21-year-old Andre Montgomery Jr. was shot and killed in St. Louis. Investigators later described the killing not as a random act but as a planned murder-for-hire plot involving several family and outside associates.

Authorities say the scheme was orchestrated by Montgomery’s uncle, James Tim Norman, who allegedly took out a $450,000 life insurance policy on his nephew naming himself sole beneficiary. Prosecutors contend Norman recruited an exotic dancer, Terica Ellis, to lure Montgomery and directed a gunman, Travell Anthony Hill, who used a .380-caliber handgun to ambush and shoot him. An insurance agent, Waiel Wally Yaghnam, is reported to have helped obtain the policy fraudulently. Reported payments include $5,000 to the shooter and $10,000 to Ellis.

Arrests followed and pleas in the case have been entered. What details about Andre’s life or movements that night might help clarify what happened remains unclear to the public; anyone with information is asked to come forward.