Turae Maurice Wright, 26, a Black male, died on August 17, 2017, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Obituary notices record his full name and age, and memorialize him as a young man with deep family ties, born on January 31, 1991, whose death left loved ones mourning in Albuquerque. These public records confirm the date and place of his death but do not describe the circumstances that led to it.
Despite searches of local police and city releases, there is no publicly available reporting that names suspects, announces arrests, or outlines an investigation into criminal culpability connected to his death. The City of Albuquerque's public-facing pages about 2017 homicide investigations and crime statistics offer no specific entry that identifies Wright or details a related case, and obituary listings likewise provide no investigative updates. In short, the public record accessible online does not reflect any arrests or identified suspects tied to his death.
It is worth noting that news outlets in California documented a separate case involving a different man named Maurice Wright, age 28, who was shot and killed in Bakersfield on October 7, 2017; years later, police there announced arrests of suspects in that Bakersfield homicide. Those reports concern a different incident in another state and on a different date than Wright's death in Albuquerque on August 17, 2017.
