Overview

• The NYPD confirmed on June 13 that 20-year-old Arius Williams was arrested and indicted on second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon charges.
• Prosecutors say video footage shows Williams throwing Montrell, alive and clad only in a diaper, off the Bruckner Bridge on May 10.
• Investigators recovered a badly decomposed body from the Bronx River near Ferry Point Park on June 11, and the medical examiner is working with the family to confirm identification.
• Williams was first arrested on June 9 for custodial interference after refusing to disclose his son’s whereabouts, prompting Mayor Eric Adams to order a review of missing-person protocols.
• Court filings indicate Williams threatened the child’s mother with a knife and admitted, "I threw that n—a into the river," when she confronted him.