Overview

• Montrell Williams, described as a Black toddler with medium complexion, brown eyes and black hair, was last seen at his father’s Hunts Point apartment on May 10 and has not been returned to his mother.
• Police allege the father threatened the child’s mother with a knife on June 8 and then told her he had thrown Montrell into the Bronx River.
• The 20-year-old was arrested on June 9 for violating a joint custody agreement and is held without bail at Rikers Island after refusing to disclose his son’s location.
• NYPD dive teams resumed operations in the Bronx River’s Soundview section on Tuesday following an initial search that yielded no sign of the boy.
• Witnesses reported seeing the father discard a bag into the river near Bruckner Boulevard on May 10, guiding investigators to focus their efforts around Bronx River Avenue.