Frank Efrin Nifon's brief tenure as a free man ended with the fatal shooting of two men and a subsequent 25-year prison sentence, as reported by the Clackamas County officials. Last Friday, Nifon pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter for the murders of Jamahl Nash and Stanafurd Blacknall, which took place in the early hours of Oct. 12, 2022, near a 7-Eleven store in Milwaukie.

The evening that led to the hasty retreat of Nash's vehicle from the 7-Eleven parking lot, ensued by 17 gunshots and the eventual death of both men inside the car after crashing into a nearby fire hydrant, whirled into tragedy quickly. According to the Clackamas County news release, surveillance footage from Lake Crest Apartments nearby captured the muzzle flashes and provided images of the suspects, aiding in the swift identification and the arrest of Nifon alongside his associate Kaythan Tenry.

Evidence from both the scene and a separate incident led to solving this crime; Deputy Ryan Castro, who had been focusing on a different case, recovered a firearm and matched the ballistic evidence to the shell casings at the 7-Eleven, bolstering the case against Nifon and his cohort. The chance sighting of Nifon and Tenry at Kaiser Sunnyside Hospital brought a quick end to the manhunt, only two days following the shooting.

In a separate, yet concurrently addressed legal matter Nifon also owned up to an unrelated charge of Unlawful Use of a Weapon for which, he will serve a concurrent five-year sentence, his history with the law extends back to previous convictions of attempted robbery and another count of unlawful use of a weapon in 2017 which netted him 67 months behind bars. At the time of the 7-Eleven shooting, he was under post-prison supervision and had obtained permission to be at Lake Crest Apartments that fatal evening.