Per the Memphis Commercial-Appeal…
Germantown police are reviewing the way a 911 call from a former NBA star’s cell phone was handled on the day he was killed.
Police chief Richard Hall said he did not learn of the call until Tuesday — eight days after it occurred.
As a result, it was not reported to investigators in nearby Collierville investigating Lorenzen Wright’s disappearance.
Sources have told The Commercial Appeal that as many as a dozen gunshots can be heard on a recording of the call, which was placed in the early morning hours of July 19.
The handling of the call may not have affected the result of the shooting, but who knows, maybe there was some clue on the tape of the call that could have helped the Collierville investigators find whoever shot him.
Apparently, three men showed up at the home of Wright’s ex-wife a few weeks before the shooting:
Sherra Robinson Wright opened her front door one day in recent weeks to find three men she had never seen before, each with guns tucked in their waistbands.
They looked serious and wanted to know if her ex-husband, former NBA star Lorenzen Wright, 34, happened to be inside the Whisperwood Drive home visiting his six children.
No, she assured them, and they drove away.
The frightened Collierville mom rushed to tell her divorce attorney, Gail Mathes, about the scary ordeal and her fears for herself, her children and the ex-husband she still loved, Mathes said.
A few weeks later, the athlete made an impromptu visit from his Atlanta-area home to Memphis. A day after his flight arrived, he was gunned down.
