{"id":43316,"date":"2017-12-06T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=43316"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:42:20","slug":"arrest-made-in-lorenzen-wright-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/arrest-made-in-lorenzen-wright-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made in Lorenzen Wright Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/636480951149678622-billy-turner.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/636480951149678622-billy-turner.jpg?resize=128%2C171\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>A gun was retrieved roughly a month ago from a lake in <strong>Walnut<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>, that was related to the cold murder case of <strong>Oxford<\/strong> native and former <strong>Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> player<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/murder-weapon-found-for-seven-year-old-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lorenzen Wright<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in 2010. Authorities then made the public aware of a reward for information that would lead them to an arrest. Despite going seven years without an substantial leads or evidence, an arrest was finally made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Billy Turner<\/strong> was arrested at <strong>Express Mart<\/strong> in <strong>Collierville<\/strong>, <strong>Tennessee<\/strong>. Video footage was released of the arrest showing Turner checking out at the counter when authorities placed him in handcuffs. There was no struggle or attempt to resist. Turner actually stepped to the side when approached by police, completely unaware they had followed him from his home to make the arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"COMMERCIALAPPEAL- Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.commercialappeal.com\/video\/embed\/108344080?placement=embed\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A store associate, <strong>Aimen Alaina<\/strong>, stated that Turner owned a landscaping business and was a regular, often hanging around to chat with the employees. He was shocked to learn what Turner was being arrested for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Turner has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on a $1 million bond.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><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\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gun was retrieved roughly a month ago from a lake in Walnut, Mississippi, that was related to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":43319,"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":[11284,11285,11283,8747,11188,468,5,642,11282,4,3,753],"class_list":["post-43316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-aimen-alaina","tag-billy-turner","tag-cold-case","tag-crime","tag-lorenzen-wright","tag-memphis","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-murder","tag-oxford","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-12-05-wright.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43316","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\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}