Erick Reyna was 22 when he and 27-year-old Noe Flores Rascon were found dead of gunshot wounds in a vehicle in northern Clarke County on January 25, 2015, after being reported missing the day before. The men had been together earlier that night at a residence in Osceola where an altercation occurred; both victims and the people later charged were acquaintances with prior contact with law enforcement.

Authorities focused on 38-year-old Richard Ryan Lamb Carson of Osceola as the primary suspect. Carson admitted to an altercation with Rascon during which a gun was discharged, at first claiming self-defense. Prosecutors contested that account; a .357 revolver recovered from a storm drain outside the home of Carson’s then-girlfriend was later matched to bullets removed from the victims. In May 2017 a jury convicted Carson of two counts of first-degree murder. Three other Osceola residents — Lynn Ranean Sutton, Christopher Martin Elben, and Tracy Kay Johnson — were charged with accessory after the fact for allegedly assisting Carson after the killings.

Medical testimony indicated Reyna may have been in a defensive posture when shot, with wounds to his hand and arm. The precise motive was not established during the trial. If anyone knew Erick Reyna or has information about the events that night, please share what is known.