It took seven years for investigators to catch a break in the murder of Lorenzen Wright, which was one of the most gut-wrenching unsolved cases in Memphis Sports history. Officers arrested a 46-year-old man with first-degree murder in the case of the 2010 killing of the former NBA center and he had no plans of going down by himself.
His cooperation would soon lead to the arrest of Sherra Wright-Robinson, the ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright.
Fast forward to July 2019 and Sherra Wright faces up to 30 years in prison after making a plea agreement that spares her a first-degree murder charge in the 2010 killing.
Via NBC:
“The ex-wife of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright on Thursday admitted that she planned his 2010 slaying and will spend between eight and 30 years behind bars.
Sherra Wright pleaded guilty in a Memphis court to facilitation to first-degree murder, and facilitation to attempted murder on an earlier attempt to kill the 13-year pro basketball player, who was killed nine years ago.
Prosecutors have said Sherra Wright conspired to kill her ex-husband in July 2010. Lorenzen Wright’s bullet-riddled, 6-foot-11 body was found in the swampy outskirts of Memphis, 10 days after he was reported missing.”
Lorenzen’s mother, Deborah Marion, was actually civil to the woman who planned her son’s slaying as she addressed her in court.
Marion thanked Sherra Wright for raising her six grand children and was looking forward to having them move in with her in Tennessee.
“It’s OK to talk to grandma,” Marion told Wright. “We still love them. That is all I want is my grand kids. That’s it. I just hate what happened to my child. But he has some nice looking kids for his grandma. They want to see me, I want to see them.”
Her plea bargain allows her to become eligible for parole in eight years.
“There’ll be parole hearings,” prosecutor Paul Hagerman said. “That doesn’t mean that they’ll be granted.
And Marion promised to fight Wright’s parole at future hearings.
“My son is serving life,” she said outside court.
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