She saw a future in a millionaire. Out of the blue, lit lite went missing. If hes missing he doesnt want us to know where he is. A former player disappeared. We got to investigate. We got to investigate. What was your interaction like with the police. I was on them. Check this person out and this person out. I am the mother of Lorenzen Wright. Thats a mothers love for a child. When i heard that story i didnt know what was going on. I felt like i was in the twilight zone. Is it possible his friends, people who knew him and loved him might not have known about this other side . Last one standing germantown 911. Where is your emergency . To actually hear the 911 call, its bloodcurdling. And you hear gunshots. You hear that dispatcher say hello over and over again. Hello . [ gunshots ] hello . You hear the gunshots, and you hear silence. Yall, i got nothing but gunshots. That 911 call and what would come after would start a mystery in the city of memphis that would transfix it for more than a decade. It was the whodunit of all cases in memphis history. Describe memphis to me. Great city, great town. Cultures unique. Of course you think of elvis. Elvis presley even recorded the song, memphis, tennessee, about his hometown. Give me memphis, tennessee but i think of the blues. I think of b. B. King. I think of beale street. Memphis is the birthplace of the blues and rock and roll. People in memphis love to talk about the music. What they dont like to talk about as much is the crime. Every time you turn the tv on, you hear of someone being murdered. Three people were shot and one man died. Being robbed. An attempted robbery led to shots being fired. Or stabbed or shot. The shooting took place on chestnut. Its an ongoing thing, man. Memphis has always been a this city of haves and have notes. Probably 30 to 40 of our people are below the poverty line, and memphis has had its share of crime through the years. These disparities, both racial and economic, theyre still there in memphis. But one thing brings memphis together, and thats basketball. Basketball bridged a racial divide in memphis. Its one of those binding things that brings people together from all walks of life. You got to understand, people from memphis, they just love whoever plays for them. So imagine if that player is homegrown. Dribble drive. Lefthand follow by Lorenzen Wright. That love then just becomes off the charts. This is why what happened to Lorenzen Wright was such a big deal. Its why i went there, to really sit down and talk to the people who knew him best. Who is Lorenzen Wright . Lorenzen wright was one of the best human beings that ever drew breath on this earth. A lot of good basketball players come out of here. He was one who really made it big. It was even noted on tv broadcasts. He come to memphis as a superstar so his name was all over the media, all over the press. He stood out. He was a hometown hero. My name is Deborah Marion, and i am the mother of Lorenzen Wright. Describe what it was like bringing lorenzen into this world. Ooh, honey, honey, honey. First of all, he was a big child. He couldnt just lay in my lap because he was just too long. So he was so long his head came off your knees . Yes, his mother had him at a very young age, and he was raised by his mother and grandmother within the same home. Lorenzens mom and dad were never married, and lorenzens dad herb didnt live in the family home, but he was still a big part of lorenzens life. By 7th, 8th grade, he was already playing the high school teams, and thats when they decided to move to get him around better competition. Literally everywhere they were talking about lorenzen. Even in high school, yes. So lorenzen decides that hes going to go to memphis state. The folks in memphis love it when cincinnati comes calling. A sellout tonight. Lorenzen drew people to the coliseum to watch basketball that didnt know anything about basketball. The entire city was just buzzing with the excitement of him playing for the college. Lorenzen wright on the jam. Lorenzen was an absolute force on the court. Exciting, athletic, big. He loved people. One of these he loved children. He was just a big baby. He was a yes, sir, yes, maam, person. He was raised right. That was lorenzen. He always had that big smile with him. That smile would just wipe you away, it would always get anybody. He was only at memphis a couple years before he went to the nba. Now is the time for me to accept the challenge of playing with the best basketball players in the nation. That nba draft was on tv. The Los Angeles Clippers select Lorenzen Wright from the university of memphis. Memphis just exploded. We were so happy, so joyous. It felt like we all got drafted. We just went crazy. He was an instant millionaire, and the clippers would make the playoffs in lorenzens rookie season. It was definitely lifechanging for him. People started calling him the howl, because after he would score or dunk, he would let out this huge howl, like he was a wolf howling at the moon. The transition out to california was a very, very big move. Money was no object. It was a culture shock. Memphis is a big city, but its a big southern city, and its not like los angeles. A few years later, that didnt matter. Lorenzen wright was going back home. Join me in welcoming Lorenzen Wright to be able to play high school ball, to play college ball, and then to play in the nba in front of your hometown, i dont know if it gets any better than that. The whole town is excited to have lorenzen back, and he shows his gratitude by spreading his wealth around. He is that proverbial guy that would take the shirt off his own back and give it away. He took care of his childhood friends a lot, right . What would he do for them . He bought cars for them and everything, let them stay with him. His house was the spot to hang out at. It was like disneyland at his house. He had a gigantic pool in the back. The number of bedrooms he had, the entertainment it was really, really nice. And he purchased his mother a home literally three minutes away. At one point, he buys you a house. What did that feel like for you . Oh, my look at my baby. Look at my baby. The little shortcut from lorenzens house to his moms house was a little road. Didnt nobody else parent live on one end and the child live on the other. That was our road, our little cutthrough. Its called callis cutoff. The callis cutoff. Its not a road you want to drive down. No lights. That was a road that if you didnt knoasheyo didnt know it was there. Its in the city, but it actually just feels like youre out in the country. I mean, heavy woods on both sides. If youre driving you just want to drive on through it. 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If youre having difficulty paying for your medications, we may be able to help. I think lorenzens strength came from the work ethic that his father instilled in him. On the court, he was a beast. Off the court, he was just a meek and mild individual. So, really, basketball was lorenzens entire life, really. Lorenzen met his wife through basketball. Sherra came into the picture his junior year of high school. He met her over the summer playing aau basketball, and her dad was his coach. Golden brown skin. Beautiful smile. She looked really good. Very sexy. She was easy on the eyes. I i dont think he had never, ever came in contact with someone that looked like sherra. I mean, she had all the goods. We would say, she knew she was fine, and you didnt have to tell her. There is a discrepancy about exactly when they started dating. Depending on who you talk to, she was in college when he was in high school. Hes a junior in high school, and here he is, dating a junior in college, you know . He thought he was big time then. They became friends, stayed in contact, and a few years later, thats when the relationship went from a friendship to a romantic relationship. It was almost like he was just blind with love, right . Yes. That girl crazy. She put moves on him like karate chops that they dont do in mississippi. I was hearing that sherra was wanting to get pregnant and to marry lorenzen. Assuming that he was going to be this great nba basketball player. When she saw lorenzen, she saw a future with a millionaire. Some of the people closest to lorenzen see sherra as a gold digger. So, were you concerned . Very. He wouldnt listen to none of us. And i kind of like cooled down. Because i said, if i got the like her a little bit to son close to me. You didnt try to disrupt the relationship because he loved her. Exactly. Deborah and sherra, they never got along. These two, they never liked each other. When she got pregnant, he was excited about it. You know, obviously his parents wasnt. I dont think this was a situation where she was chasing lorenzen and eventually wore him down to be with her. I think, if anything, it was the other way around. So, while were in college doing the fraternity thing, she was about to give birth to lorenzen jr. At the time. In between class and practice time, he would go see his baby. Some of his friends and family feel that sherra has trapped him. She knew once she had a child it was over, marriage, because he wanted to be in the house with his child. And at that point, you knew that she was going to get married to him. Yes. It was a couple of years later that they got married. Of course, he always told us that he wanted a big family. As lorenzens nba career blossomed, so does his family. He has a son, lorenzen jr, a daughter, lauren, twins, lamar and shamar, sofia, lawson, and a daughter, sierra, who tragically died of sids. That could take a toll on any marriage, even a good one. Family was everything to him. For lorenzen, his kids was everything to him. He spent his whole life and everything he valued was based on his kids and love for his kids. What were those early days in the nba . What was the marriage like between sherra and lorenzen . It was good. The two of them were living well together, they were getting along . Yes. For an nba player in a marriage, theres good news and bad news. The good news, youre making millions of dollars to support your wife and your family. They had money. They had money, and they could go and buy things. And he loved cars. And she loved jewelry. And, you know, they spent a lot of money. Just as fast as he was making money, money was being spent. The bad news, youre on the road a lot, and that comes with temptations. Hes a ladies man. He loved the ladies. The ladies loved him, too. And he would tell me every time the plane touched down, theyd be already there waiting. They were always trying to connect. Trying to find out where the hookup places would be after the game. Now, do i know that he cheated . Yes. Hell, i know i was with him half the time. When did they start struggling and why . When he caught her with that guy. He caught her being unfaithful. Yes. And thats when things started breaking down . Yes. The infidelity happened, to be fair, on both sides. So the marriage was complicated. I think what happened to the marriage was that, you know, they grew apart. Maybe there were some greed issues there. He would say things like, man, its just always about money with her. Did they have a lot of fights . Ive seen the evidence of some pretty bad brawls. He told me the marriage ended because he didnt trust sherra anymore. She felt the same about him. But they were still going to try to find a way to raise these kids. At that point, how was his relationship with his kids . Fine. He said that sherras the one who filed for the divorce, not lorenzen. 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And it turns out his sister danotra is having a baby shower that weekend, too. So hes got a lot going on. I drove lorenzen to the airport to fly out to memphis. As i look back now, i think that something was going on because lorenzen was he was always on edge that whole week, which i thought was unusual. Whenever lorenzen came to memphis, phil would be the first person that he would call. Completely unexpected. Out of the blue. He calls me and says, hey, bud, im in town. Lets hang out. Just bought a new vehicle, and i wanted him to ride in it. And we rode all around the city. He took a picture on my phone of himself that evening. To look at that photo, you would never know that Lorenzen Wrigh