Lorenzen Wright's Mother Hoping to Raise $100K Reward to Solve Son's Murder

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (CBS/WREG) Nearly two months have passed since authorities found former NBA player Lorenzen Wright murdered, and his mother Deborah Marion is determined to find answers.

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Marion believes someone knows what really happened in the field where Wright's body was dumped, which is why she has now shifted her efforts to raise $100,000 for a reward in hopes that someone will talk, reports CBS affiliate WREG.

Wright, 34, was last seen by family members July 19; three days later he was reported missing. Wright's body was found July 28 in a wooded area just outside Memphis. His death was ruled a homicide by gunshot wounds.

Police last month searched the Collierville home of Sherra Wright, the former NBA player's ex-wife, prompting many people to wonder if she was involved in Wright's killing. Sherra was not arrested.

She claimed Wright left her home carrying money and a box of drugs the night he disappeared, according to court documents obtained Aug. 11.

According to Sherra, her ex-husband left her home at 10:30 p.m. on July 18 with the drugs, returned a short time later, then left again with an unspecified amount of money, said an affidavit for a search warrant by Memphis police Sgt. W.D. Merritt. Before he left, Sherra said she overheard her ex-husband on the telephone telling someone that he was going to "flip something for $110,000," the document said.

Marion denies the accusation against her son. "That's the first time anyone ever said anything about Lorenzen and some drugs," she told WREG. "That's the first time anybody ever heard anything about any drugs and you haven't heard it since from anybody."

Though Marion does not believe Sherra's account, she insisted that she does want the mother of her six grandchildren to be "cleared of everything."

In the meantime, Marion continues to seek closure and finding the killer is the only way she believes it will come.

"He's not going to be forgotten," Marion said of her son. "He's my first born child and he's got 6 kids of his own that deserve to know what happened to their father. That was cold and callous the way they murdered him."

Wright, a 6-foot-11 forward-center, played with five teams during his 13-year NBA career. He averaged 8 points and 6.4 rebounds in 778 career NBA games.

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