Unwilling to let the public forget that her son’s killer is still at large, Deborah Marion wants to know who left her six grandchildren fatherless and why. She repeatedly visits and call the Memphis Police Department for answers, though authorities seem to be at a loss. “We are a long way from solving this crime,” Police Director Toney Armstrong said last week.
Marion filed a $2 million lawsuit July 27, accusing suburban authorities in Germantown and Collierville of ignoring her son’s 911 call in which shots could be heard in the background. Emergency dispatchers said they didn’t alert patrol officers or commanders because they couldn’t confirm it came from their jurisdiction.
Wright’s mother filed a missing person report with Collierville police on July 22, 2010, but she accuses authorities in Collierville of dragging their feet in the days after the report was filed, and failing to link the 911 call to the missing person report. Officials in both municipalities have declined comment. Marion believes the police departments involved did not take enough responsibility.
Wright’s body was found 10 days after he was last seen alive. He had been shot five times.
His mother says she has turned to counseling and her pastor to cope with her son’s death. Herb Wright, Lorenzen’s father, continues to coach basketball, “doing exactly what he knew Lorenzen wanted, which is to keep his boys in basketball,” she said.
The details of Wright’s death include accusations of drug dealing, gang affiliation and suspicions that surged around his ex-wife, who was the last to see him alive. Wright had a house in Atlanta and spent time there, but his mother said she is certain the killer or killers are in Memphis and had a “vendetta” against her son: “They were just stone-cold killers.”
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