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The ex-wife of former Memphis Grizzlies and University of Memphis star Lorenzen Wright told police that he left her home on the night of his death with a box of drugs and an untold amount of cash, according to documents obtained by the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.The newspaper obtained an affidavit from a Memphis police sergeant who said Sherra Wright, Lorenzen Wright's former wife, told them that the former NBA forward left her home late in the evening of July 18 carrying a box of drugs. Sherra Wright said he returned to the home a short time later, then left again, this time with cash.
Lorenzen Wright's body was found July 28 in a wooded area in the southeast part of the city, six days after his mother reported him missing. The death was ruled a homicide by gunshot wound. Police originally reported that Wright was in the midst of a 911 call when the dispatcher heard gunshots and the cell phone went silent. No arrests have been made to date.
The Commercial Appeal reported that Wright's ex-wife told police that he had had a conversation on two separate cell phones with an unidentified person during which she overheard Wright say that he was "going to flip something for $110,000."
Sherra Wright told police that her former husband owned a shotgun that he kept at her suburban Memphis home and a handgun that he kept inside the family van. Police have searched the home and the van, but have found neither firearm.
According to the affidavit, police have recovered shell casings of different calibers with Wright's body, but they have not retrieved the cell phones that he used on the night he was killed.
"We are awaiting the examination of several articles of evidence by various sources," Lt. Alan Ruhl, a Memphis police spokesman told the newspaper. "Lorenzen Wright's extensive travels have required that homicide investigators conduct interviews in jurisdictions which are well outside of Memphis."
In a related development, Sherra Wright's attorney told the Commercial Appeal that he has advised her not to speak to police anymore, after police searched her home on August 1 and turned up burned metal and a letter addressed to her and her former husband
"We don't have anything to say," Coleman Garrett said. "We don't have anything to hide either. ... She's saying she didn't have anything to do with it, doesn't know what's behind it and has nothing to add other than what she already told (police) prior to the time that the body was located."
"Whatever they're looking for, we don't have it."
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