Overview

• Cierra Carroll and her mother, Octavia Roane, filed the notice of claim with the city comptroller’s office accusing the NYPD of negligence in Montrell’s May disappearance.
• The lawsuit contends officers misclassified multiple 911 calls as a custody dispute, preventing a timely missing-child investigation and an Amber Alert.
• Surveillance video cited in the claim shows Montrell alive moments before his father, Arius Williams, allegedly threw him from the Bruckner Expressway overpass into the East River.
• Arius Williams has been indicted on murder and manslaughter charges, pleaded not guilty, and remains detained without bail.
• Commissioner Jessica Tisch has opened an internal review of the department’s handling of the case as the family pursues its civil action.