Death of a Hometown Hero

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

There was probably no player as popular in the history of Memphis high school, college and NBA basketball as Lorenzen Wright. When he goes missing in 2010 and is found dead ten days later, Lorenzen’s mother insists she knows who murdered her son and is relentless in helping detectives solve his case. Andrea Canning reports.

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0:00.0	I'm Lester Holt, tonight on Dateline, famed, fortune, and a fatal mystery.
0:06.0	Who killed the basketball star?
0:10.0	He was larger than life.
0:12.0	He's making tens of millions of dollars.
0:15.0	I mean, this is Lorenzo and Wright.
0:17.0	It was as if an explosion went off.
0:21.0	Hello?
0:24.0	Someone is running for their life and there's multiple gunshots.
0:28.0	He made the hell in the back of your next dinner.
0:30.0	He didn't deserve to die this way.
0:32.0	Who would do this to him?
0:34.0	You look at everybody. Every friend, every family member.
0:37.0	The divorce spouse, she was the last person known to have seen him.
0:40.0	We had to dig into it.
0:41.0	There were these mysterious gunmen showing up looking for Lorenzo.
0:45.0	Who were these people that came by the house?
0:47.0	All of a sudden, they found a gun.
0:50.0	They're on to somebody.
0:51.0	He was under everybody's noses the whole time.
0:53.0	Yeah, how's that for a kicker?
0:55.0	Just the ultimate evil.
1:08.0	Here's Andrea Canning with death of a hometown hero.
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