After 7 yrs., cops arrest ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright

THE EX-WIFE of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright — who had six children with the hoop standout and banked $1 million from his insurance policy — has been charged in his 2010 slaying, police said Saturday.

Sherra Wright, 46, (left in photo) was arrested Friday night in Riverside, Calif., and charged with first-degree murder, more than seven years after her ex’s bullet-riddled body was found in a field near his hometown of Memphis.

The slain 34-year-old (photo center) played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and four other teams over 13 seasons as a forward and center. His decomposing body was found on July 28, 2010, 10 days after his mother reported him missing.

Bullet fragments were lodged in Wright’s skull, chest and right forearm, an autopsy showed.

There was a break in the case Dec. 5 when Billy Turner (photo right), a deacon at the church Sherra White attended, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge Wright’s death. Turner pleaded not guilty.

Turner, in a landscaper, and Sherra Wright conspired to kill the 6-foot-11 fan favorite, according to a release from the Shelby County district attorney’s office that offered no additional details about motive. Police said last month that they had found a gun used in the killing in a lake near Walnut, Miss., about 75 miles east of Memphis.

“The weapon was key,” Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings said Saturday.

Sherra Wright received $1 million from her ex-husband’s life insurance policy, and agreed to a settlement in 2014 in a court dispute over how she spent the insurance money meant to benefit their six children, The Commercial Appeal reported.

She spoke with police after her ex-husband’s body was found. According to an affidavit, she told police she saw him leave her home carrying money and a box of drugs on July 18, 2010. Before he left, she said she overheard him on the telephone telling someone that he was going to “flip something for $110,000,” the document said.

In the early morning of July 19, a police dispatcher in the suburb of Germantown received a call from Wright’s cell phone. Dispatchers acknowledged they heard noises like gunshots before the call was dropped. But they didn’t alert officers or commanders because they couldn’t confirm it came from their jurisdiction. After Turner was charged with Lorenzen Wright’s murder, the NBA star’s mother Debora Marion expressed her relief.

“Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus,” she told WREG-TV. “You gotta pray for what you want and that’s what I did.”