The Murder of Edric Hinton: Unearthing the Truth Behind a Lansing Cold Case

On a summer night in 2009, nineteen-year-old Edric Hinton was senselessly gunned down outside a Lansing apartment complex in a tragedy that haunted his family and community for seventeen years. With the perpetrators unidentified and the murder weapon nowhere to be found, local investigators refused to let the case go cold, pursuing fragmented leads across nearly two decades. A critical breakthrough finally emerged when a confidential informant directed detectives to a shotgun buried underground, providing the physical link that forensic scientists matched directly to the fatal crime scene. This investigative triumph—supported by multi-agency forensic support, federal firearms tracking protocols, and dedicated cold-case detectives—finally unmasked Esteban Reyes Jr. and Lee Anthony Lynn, delivering long-sought answers even beyond the grave.