Overview

• Montrell Williams was last seen on May 10 during a custodial visit in the Hunts Point area and his mother filed a missing person report on May 30.
• Arius Williams allegedly confessed at knifepoint on June 7 that he had thrown his 2-year-old son into the Bronx River.
• The father was arrested on June 9, appeared in Family Court and was remanded to Rikers Island without bail after refusing to disclose his son’s whereabouts.
• NYPD divers began searching the Bronx River under the Bruckner Expressway on June 9 and have yet to recover Montrell’s body.
• The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau has launched a probe into the department’s handling of the case and its initial categorization of the toddler’s disappearance.