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The case against the man accused of killing NBA basketball player Lorenzen Wright was reset on Monday due to the pandemic. As WREG has learned, it’s one of the many cases that have had to be rescheduled after the Supreme Court deemed it unsafe to hold jury trials amid a pandemic.

The man accused of murdering Memphis basketball player Lorenzen Wright will not go on trial as scheduled next week.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “Killing Lorenzen: Love|Basketball|Murder” has been awarded a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for best podcast by the Radio Television Digital News Association. Hometown NBA basketball star Lorenzen Wright was murdered in a field near his Memphis home in 2010. Wright’s ex-wife Sherra pleaded guilty to facilitating that murder in an explosive trial […]

  Download episodes from the link above or search for it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Play. Lorenzen Wright’s murdershocked the Memphis community. WREG TV began covering Lorenzen Wright from the time he emerged on the local high school basketball scene in Memphis in the early 1990s, through his college playing days at […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — We are getting some insight on how Sherra Wright is passing her time behind bars. Officials with the Tennessee Department of Corrections say Wright is enrolled in  adult basic education classes.  And despite having discipline problems while in Shelby County Jail, which included flooding her jail cell, officials say she has had […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Billy Ray Turner, the man accused of killing Memphis basketball player Lorenzen Wright, will head to trial this fall. On Tuesday, a Shelby County judge announced Turner would have another hearing in April followed by trial on October 26, more than a year after the original trial date of September 2019. His […]

Another brief court appearance and another delay in the Lorenzen Wright murder case on Wednesday.

A judge set a new hearing date Wednesday in the Lorenzen Wright murder case to give lawyers time to prepare expert witness schedules for a trial or even reach a plea deal in the former NBA player’s slaying nine years ago in Memphis, Tennessee.

Some families say plea deals are being forced on them when they want to go to trial

This podcast retraces the Lorenzen Wright story, from his birth to his untimely death and the search for justice in his killing.

He made a decision in fourth grade to keep a secret about his mother — a secret that would change his life forever.