{"id":42843,"date":"2017-11-16T00:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=42843"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:26:09","slug":"murder-weapon-found-for-seven-year-old-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/murder-weapon-found-for-seven-year-old-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Weapon Found for Seven-Year-Old Case of Former Oxford, Mississippi Basketball Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Memphis Police<\/strong> located the gun used in the murder of <strong>Lorenzen Wright<\/strong>, a Memphis Grizzlies and <strong>University of Memphis Tigers<\/strong> player who was killed in 2010. The weapon was retrieved from a lake on County Road 302 in <strong>Walnut, Mississippi<\/strong>.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26-lorenzen-wright.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42844 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26-lorenzen-wright.jpg?resize=300%2C425\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26-lorenzen-wright.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26-lorenzen-wright.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Wright went missing July 18, 2010 in <strong>Collierville, Mississippi<\/strong> and his body was found 10 days later. The case went cold for seven years until heated back up last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The reward for information leading to arrest in the case has crawled to $21,000 in hopes to put the killer or killers behind bars. The <strong>State of Tennessee<\/strong>, the <strong>City of Memphis<\/strong>, the Memphis Grizzlies, and <strong>CrimeStoppers<\/strong> are all joining dollars to bring justice to Wright&#8217;s family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Wright grew up in <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> and played high school, collegiate, and professional basketball in Memphis. As a sophomore, he was selected a <strong>Third Team All-America<\/strong> by the <strong>Associated Press<\/strong> at the University of Memphis. He played for the Grizzlies for three years.\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Police located the gun used in the murder of Lorenzen Wright, a Memphis Grizzlies and University of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":42844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[8747,11190,11188,468,11189,5,4,3,753],"class_list":["post-42843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-crime","tag-local-crime","tag-lorenzen-wright","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26-lorenzen-wright.jpg?fit=300%2C425&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}