3 Family Members Indicted in Murder Case

June 5, 2020 – Two brothers and their mother have been indicted in the shooting death last year of a 60-year-old man who they mistakenly believed had accosted the mother earlier, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury this week indicted Favian Effinger, 26, Miguel Effinger, 21, on charges of first-degree murder. Their mother, Gjuandell Effinger, 50, was indicted on solicitation to commit first-degree murder.

On Nov. 24, 2019, police were called to a Raleigh shopping center in the 3800 block of Austin Peay Highway where they found Nazario Garcia dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He was lying near his white panel truck and had been shot with a shotgun and a handgun in the front and in the back.

Investigators said Gjuandell told her sons that Garcia had tried to abduct her and posted video on social media showing his white panel truck, license tag and his location. The brothers arrived a short time later in separate vehicles and confronted Garcia as he came out of a store.

Witnesses identified the Effinger brothers as the shooters, and police took them into custody two days later. Their mother also was arrested and charged.

The case is being handled by Felony Asst. Jimmy Thomas of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 1 which handles cases in General Sessions Division 7 and in Criminal Court Division 1.