Overview

• The Bronx family filed a $60.5 million notice of claim with the New York City Comptroller’s Office in a wrongful death action over the NYPD’s response to toddler Montrell Williams’s disappearance.
• The claim contends that officers misclassified 911 calls from May 11 as a custody dispute and failed to initiate a missing-child investigation or issue an Amber Alert.
• Montrell’s body was recovered from the East River on June 11 after surveillance footage showed his father, Arius Williams, allegedly tossing him off a Bruckner Expressway overpass on May 10.
• Arius Williams, indicted for second-degree murder and manslaughter, remains held without bail pending trial.
• The NYPD has launched an internal review of its missing-person protocols while community leaders and clergy continue to press for reforms in child welfare and emergency response.