Sherra Wright likely won’t even be getting out of prison and that is a good thing considering the crime she committed.
A Tennessee judge issued a $20 million bond Wednesday for the ex-wife of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, Sherra Wright in his shooting death nearly eight years ago.
His decomposing, bullet-riddled body was found in a swampy field in suburban Memphis on July 28, 2010 — 10 days after the 34-year-old was reported missing. In an affidavit read in court by prosecutor Paul Hagerman, witnesses said she masterminded a plan to have two men kill Lorenzen Wright at his home in Atlanta, but that attempt failed.
Authorities said she and Billy Turner then conspired to kill him in Memphis, and they dumped one of the guns used in the shooting in a Mississippi lake. One witness cited in the affidavit said Sherra Wright identified the spot where her ex-husband’s body would be found, days before it was discovered.
Hagerman said. Later, she allegedly took off her clothes, flooded her jail cell and verbally insulted and threatened jail guards with language Coffee called abusive and offensive.
While flooding her cell, Wright said she was “going swimming,” an indication of her troubled mental state, Coffee said. The judge called Wright’s actions the day before her bond hearing “absolutely shocking and mind-numbing” and said she presents a danger to the community.
“I cannot trust her,” Coffee said.
She killed Wright for $1 million in insurance money which she and Turner who was her pastor at the time promptly blew. The life insurance money was supposed to be for Wright’s kids.
Put her all the way under the jail.