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Two Men Indicted in Quadruple Slaying of Family in Upstate New York

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*Now we have two suspects in the quadruple homicide in Troy, NY that we previously reported on.

Authorities say two men (James White and Justin Mann) were committing a burglary when they killed two women and two children after which they fled the victims’ apartment with a television and an Xbox video game system. This, according to an indictment handed down Friday.

A grand jury in Rensselaer County, NY indicted White and Mann on 13 murder counts, as well as burglary, robbery and possession of stolen property. They pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Friday and were sent to the county jail without bail.

White and Mann are accused of the Dec. 21 slayings of Shanta Myers; her lover, Brandi Mells; and Myers’ children, ages 5 and 11.

The bodies were found by a property manager who was asked to check on them the day after Christmas. So far, authorities have not disclosed how the victims were killed or what led to the arrests of White and Mann.

Lawyers for the defendants did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday, reports the AP.

White, 38, served prison time for manslaughter in the 1999 stabbing death of a Bronx man. Mann, 24, served time for a 2013 armed robbery in Queens. White and Mann were arrested at an apartment in Schenectady on Saturday.

A memorial service for Myers and her two children is scheduled for Saturday in the Troy Middle School auditorium. Funeral arrangements for Mells haven’t been announced.

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Troy, NY homicide victims

Earlier we reported …

All four family members found dead inside of their New York apartment on the day after Christmas have been identifiedby upstate police officers as Shanta Myers, 36; her children, Jeremiah Myers, 11 and Shanise Myers, 5; and her partner, Brandi Mells, 22.

The bodies of the two women and children were discovered in a basement by the building’s property manager, who had received a call from the victims’ relatives asking him to do a welfare check on the family. While police have not announced their causes of death, they are treating the incident as a “suspicious” quadruple homicide. During a press conference on Wednesday, Troy Police Chief John Tedesco hinted that the murders were gruesome.

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