{"id":17680,"date":"2025-06-27T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17680\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:34:14","slug":"2-year-old-montrell-williams-was-standing-next-to-his-dad-before-father-tossed-him-in-bronx-river-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17680\/","title":{"rendered":"2-year-old Montrell Williams was standing next to his dad before father tossed him in Bronx River: prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unsuspecting and innocent Montrell Williams stood next to his dad for several minutes on an expressway overpass last month before the unhinged father hoisted the toddler over the railing and into the cold, murky waters of the Bronx River<\/a> below, prosecutors said Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMontrell was seen alive and standing near his father moments before the defendant allegedly picked the 2-year-old up and threw him into the river, causing his death,\u201d Bronx DA Darcel Clark said in a statement after Arius Williams was indicted by a grand jury on murder, manslaughter and menacing charges.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AriusArius Williams, 20, was arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court on June 12, 2025. (Kevin C. Downs for The New York Post\/POOL)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant would not tell the boy\u2019s mother and grandmother where Montrell was, and the child\u2019s body was not found until a month later, causing agony to the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cops said Williams stormed off with the boy after a Mother\u2019s Day fight with his own mother, and was evasive about what he did with the boy in the weeks that followed,<\/p>\n

When Williams, 20, was confronted in person by the child\u2019s 17-year-old mother, he threatened her with a knife and told her that he had thrown their son into the river, officials said.<\/p>\n

Montrell was later sent to jail for being in contempt of court for refusing to disclose to a Bronx Family Court judge where the missing boy was.<\/p>\n

The threat against the mother and his comments about throwing the boy in the river launched a search that ended miles away from the spot where police said a surveillance camera captured Williams tossing something into the water<\/a> weeks earlier from a Bruckner Expressway overpass.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

The site near Bronx River Ave. where Arius Williams is accused of tossing his 2-year-old son Montrell into the Bronx River. (Photo by Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The decomposing body was still dressed in the Calvin Klein T-shirt Montrell was wearing when he disappeared with his dad, officials said.<\/p>\n

The body recovered was found about 2 miles from where the Bronx River flows into the East River.<\/p>\n

Montrell\u2019s mother and grandmother lashed out at the NYPD for not moving faster to find the boy. The family said cops told them that there was little they could do because Williams had Montrell during an approved overnight visit.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe maternal grandmother of Montrell Williams speaks during a press conference outside the 40th Pct. Monday, June 16, 2025 in the Bronx. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that on May 10, Williams came to a Mother\u2019s Day party at his mother\u2019s home, but left with the boy after an argument with her.<\/p>\n

He showed up two hours later at a relative\u2019s house without the child, family members said. Williams went on to post on social media about things he was supposedly doing with Montrell \u2014 but never included any pictures, family members said.<\/p>\n

Montrell\u2019s mother and grandmother grew alarmed when Williams didn\u2019t return with Montrell, and called 911 to say the boy was missing, the grandmother, Octavia Roane, said.<\/p>\n

Roane described her grandson as a \u201cmama\u2019s boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Montrell<\/p>\n

NYPD<\/p>\n

Montrell Williams, 2, was last seen by his mother on Saturday, May 10, 2025. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s her only son and my first grandchild,\u201d Roane said days after Williams\u2019 arrest. \u201cHe was just a joyful kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally Published: June 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unsuspecting and innocent Montrell Williams stood next to his dad for several minutes on an expressway overpass…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-17680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114752524479995261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}