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

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic is causing a big back up in the courts. Usually 200 cases are tried at the Criminal Justice Center in a year. This year they have tried just 20. Judge Lee Coffee, of the Shelby County Criminal Court -Division 7, spoke to WREG-TV about the impacts of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group of people fighting for justice for former Memphis Grizzlies and Tigers player Lorenzen Wright hosted a vigil at his grave site Saturday morning and marched more than four miles, calling for justice. Even though Wright’s ex-wife has been convicted in his murder and another man is awaiting trial, they say […]

Billy Ray Turner, Sherra Wright’s co-defendant in the Lorenzen Wright murder case, had his trial date reset by a judge Thursday.

Billy Ray Turner, one of the defendants in the Lorezen Wright murder case, appeared in a Shelby County courtroom on Thursday.

One of the suspects in the Lorenzen Wright murder case will make an appear in court on Thursday.