According to online reports, the mother of slain former Atlanta Hawks player Lorenzen Wright threatened him if she caught him with other women.
The former personal assistant, Wendy Wilson, told ABC24-WPTY that Sherra Wright was recorded saying “things like if she caught him with anyone else, she’d have him ‘F’d up’ or whatever,” according to an article posted on myeyewitnessnews.com, a website for the ABC affiliate.
Wilson said she filed a report with Memphis police because she felt the recorded conversations were “threatening.” She said Lorenzen Wright asked her to keep the tape, adding “he wouldn’t have asked me to keep them if he didn’t think he’d need them someday.” Read More…
Lorenzen Wright’s bullet riddled body was found in a Southeast Memphis field on Wednesday, July 28, not far from his mother’s home. He had been missing for 9 days.
Sherra Wright’s divorce attorney, Gail Mathes, told police Wright was herself threatened six weeks before her ex-husband was gunned down by unknown assailant.
Mathes said three armed men showed up at Wright’s door demanding to see her ex-husband. She said the men threatened Wright and her family if she reported them to the police. Wright said the three men wore sport jackets which they opened to reveal guns in their waistbands.
According to online reports, Wright arrived in Memphis unexpectedly on July 18, with his “girlfriend” in tow.
The alleged girlfriend, Alexis Bradley, posted photos of herself with Wright on her Facebook page after his body was discovered.
A family friend told Sportscasm.com that Lorenzen Wright planned to remove his children from his ex-wife’s home and relocate them to Atlanta on the day he was killed, because she was addicted to crack cocaine.
Lorenzen Wright adored and doted on his kids — especially Loren, his favorite. According to cell phone records, Loren was the last person he spoke to the night he died. He called Loren from inside the house. He was on the first floor and she was upstairs in her bedroom.
Word on the street is Sherra Wright knows more than what she’s telling. According to the AJC, “when the Wrights divorced, the court ordered Lorenzen Wright to pay $26,000 a month in child support and alimony.”
Wright made no payments after November 2009, and Sherra Wright struggled to make ends meet. She told the police she last saw her ex-husband when he left her home around 2 a.m. on July 19 with an unknown person.
But according to Germantown police, a 911 call was made from Lorenzen Wright’s cell phone just after midnight on July 19. A man was heard uttering an expletive before rapid fire gunshots could be heard in a taped recording of the call. Police believe Wright was killed at that time. If so, then Sherra Wright’s statement conflicts with the timing of the 911 call.
Sherra Wright also told police that when she awoke around 2 a.m. on July 19, her van was missing from the driveway. She said when she woke up again a few hours later, the van was back in her driveway. She was sitting in that same van outside her home on Sunday, July 1, as homicide investigators conducted a search of her home.
Investigators paid particular attention to a bbq grill in Wright’s backyard. Neighbors say they saw a fire burning in the backyard the same night Lorenzen Wright went missing.
Memphis city leaders called for a unified 911 call center in light of a report that the Germantown dispatcher who took Wright’s cell call couldn’t pinpoint his location because her screen came up blank. The dispatcher said she consulted with a supervisor who told her the call originated from outside of the Germantown jurisdiction.
Germantown PD did not forward the details of the 911 call to Memphis investigators for more than a week.
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