Last July, Lorenzen Wright frantically called police seeking immediate help but it was too late.
The call was routed to Germantown, TN and a dispatcher heard a garbled man's voice followed by 10 gun shots. The dispatcher attempted to call back the cell phone but got no answer then traced the call to a tower just a few miles away in Memphis, outside of their jurisdiction, and the call was never routed to Memphis so no patrol cars were sent out.
Wright's body was found 10 days later a couple hundred yards from the cell tower where the dispatcher originally traced the call in a heavily wooded area.
Wright's mother, Deborah Marion, filed a federal lawsuit on July, 19, 2011 against the city of Germantown and the city's police department, alleging that the mishandling of Wright's call for help represented a violation of his civil rights and crippled the investigation into his murder.
His body was badly decomposed and weighed only 57lbs when authorities found his remains.
No one has been arrested in connection with his murder and remains unsolved.
Credit: HuffingtonPost
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