An 11-year-old boy, Jeremiah Myers, was among four people killed in a basement apartment in the Lansingburgh section of Troy, New York. Authorities say the killings occurred on December 21, 2017, but the bodies were not discovered until the afternoon of December 26 when a property manager checked on the residents. The other victims were Jeremiah’s mother, Shanta Myers, her partner, Brandi Mells, and Jeremiah’s younger sister. Police described the scene as targeted and called it an act of savagery.

Within days, two men from Schenectady, James White and Justin Mann, were arrested and arraigned on multiple murder charges; each faced one count of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder and pleaded not guilty at arraignment. Prosecutors later said the killings followed a robbery. In April 2019 Mann pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murder; reporting described victims as bound with their throats slashed, and the plea required Mann’s cooperation against White. In December 2021 a jury convicted White on the counts presented at trial, and in January 2022 he was sentenced to life without parole; prosecutors said evidence traced White carrying victims’ belongings between Schenectady and Troy and alleged that White and Mann robbed the victims before killing them.

Did anyone in Lansingburgh remember unusual visitors or activity around the complex in the days before December 21, 2017?