Two men appeared in court on murder charges on Saturday, after two women and two children were found dead just before Christmas in their apartment in upstate New York. Justin Mann and James White pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree murder charges in front of a judge in Troy, New York. The two men are charged in the deaths of Brandi Mells, 22, and Shanta Myers, 36, and Myers’s 11-year-old son Jeremiah and five-year-old daughter Shanise. Troy police chief John Tedesco said one of the defendants knew one of the victims, according to the Times Union. A local church, Victory Christian Church, offered a $10,000 reward for any information prompting the capture of the killer or killers.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 13:23 UTC