Police have found a gun believed to be related to the Lorenzen Wright murder of 2010, according to a Memphis Police Department spokesperson.
Police say murder weapon in Lorenzen Wright case has been found
Wright was killed in 2010 after a 13-year NBA career, and the case is still unsolved.
“It’s believed that this is the murder weapon,” the spokesperson, Louis Brownlee, told reporters on Thursday.
Wright spent 13 seasons in the NBA after starring at the University of Memphis, where he was a consensus second-team All-American in 1996. In his NBA career, the 6’11 center scored 6,191 points and pulled down 4,943 rebounds. He had last played 17 games for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2009.
On July 18, 2010, Wright left his ex-wife’s house in Memphis. A 911 operator reported receiving a phone call from someone believed to be Wright in the early morning of July 19, but the call was quickly interrupted by gunfire. On July 28, Wright was found dead from gunshot wounds in a wooded area near his ex’s house. The murder is still unsolved.
There is no further information about the found gun, and the investigation is still ongoing. However, any news is good news to Wright’s mother, Deborah Marion, who hopes the killer or killers will come forward.
“It’s been a long time coming, but they done came up with something,” she told WREG Memphis.
Wright was 34 when he was killed. He would have turned 42 last weekend.
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