The Troy community is continuing to rally around the families of two women and two children who were killed in their apartment four days before Christmas.

A GoFundMe page for Shanta Myers, 36, and two of Myers' three children — Shanise Myers, 5, and Jeremiah "JJ" Myers, 11, had raised more than $42,000 as of Sunday.

The page’s organizer, Hollyanne Buntich, said that funeral services for the family have now been donated. So any money raised will go toward supporting Myers’ surviving son, Isaiah Smith, 15, who wasn't in the apartment when the killings happened. It was not immediately clear who was paying for the funeral arrangements, or when they will be held.

A separate GoFundMe page has been set up for the fourth victim, Myers' partner Brandi Mells, 22.

Saturday afternoon family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil outside 158 2nd Ave. where Mells and the Myers family lived. The Troy Boys & Girls Club is organizing a charity basketball tournament for Saturday to benefit Isaiah Smith as well.

Police sources said all four victims were found Dec. 26 with their hands and ankles bound, their throats apparently cut. The apartment's manager found them after family and friends expressed concern that they were unable to reach them for several days. Police believe they were killed the night of Dec. 21.

On Friday evening police charged two Schenectady men for allegedly committing the killings. Justin C. Mann, 24 and James W. White, 38, were arrested at Mann’s apartment on Hamilton Street in Schenectady and both have been charged with first-degree murder.

Both men have records and Mann is on parole. A Justin Mann was paroled on a robbery conviction in June from a Queens prison, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

White was paroled in 2010 after serving over eight years in state prison on a manslaughter conviction.

Police have not revealed a motive yet in the killings, only saying that one of the defendants knew one of the victims.

The two men both have court appointed lawyers. They were arraigned Saturday morning. Both suspects were charged with one count of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder. They are scheduled to make their next court appearance on Thursday.