‘It’s Him or Me’: Ex-Wife of Slain Basketball Star Lorenzen Wright Claimed He Put a Hit Out on Her, Cousin Testifies
https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/...sin-testifies/The ex-wife of murdered NBA star Lorenzen Wright, 34, claimed that he put a hit out on her, said her cousin in testimony on Tuesday.
“It’s him or me,” Sherra Wright allegedly said. “He has a hit on me. He has to be gone.”
Someone shot and killed Lorenzen Wright on the early morning of July 19, 2010. Prosecutors said the victim’s former spouse Sherra Wright and her lover Billy Ray Turner, 51, who is currently on trial for allegedly murdering Wright. Sherra threw away her gun in a moment of fear, but Turner shot the retired Memphis Grizzlies center multiple times, cutting short the victim’s 911 call to authorities in Germantown, Tennessee, prosecutor Paul Hagerman said in opening statements on Tuesday.