The ex-wife of a slain NBA player has been arrested in connection with her murder, according to reports.
Sherra Wright was arrested in Riverside, Calif., On Friday night more than seven years after Lorenzen Wright's bullet-riddled body was found in a Tennessee suburb.
While her indictment is still sealed, the basketball player's mother Deborah Marion said police told her Sherra Wright will face murder charges, Fox13 reported.
Billy Turner - A deacon at the church Lorenzen and Sherra Wright attended - was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday. He pleaded not gotta
Lorenzen Wright's murder remained one of Memphis police's highest-profile cold cases until the investigators found a murder weapon in Mississippi last month.
The 34-year-old who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers last seen on July 18, 2010, as he left his ex-wife's home.
In the morning of July 19, a police dispatcher in the suburb of Germantown received a call from Wright's cell phone. Dispatchers acknowledged they were not heard like gunshots before the call was dropped.
But the dispatchers did not alert patrol officers or commanders because they could not confirm it from their jurisdiction. They did not send a patrol officer or relay the information to Memphis police until days later.
Wright's mother filed a missing-person report with Collierville police on July 22, 2010. Authorities in Collierville were accused of dragging their feet in the days after the report was filed, and an apparent lack of communication kept authorities from linking the 911 call to the missing-person report
Wright, who had the bullet fragments lodged in his skull, chest, and right forearm, found in a field near the woods in the height of the summer, complicating the investigation as evidence because the evidence wasted in the heat.
After Sherra Wright was arrested on Friday, Marion expressed his relief and thanked Jesus.
Sherra Wright divorced Lorenzen Wright months before he died, his divorce attorney Gail Mathes told the Daily News in 2010.
She had not held a job in 17 years and had nearly $ 3 million in debt, Mathes Side.
While Mathes said she "did not have any motive to kill because he had no money," her former mother-in-law believes Sherra was driven by her son's $ 1 million life insurance policy, FOX13 reported.
Lorenzen Wright's former personal assistant also claimed she had audio tapes that show Sherra Wright made her husband.
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