The daddy of the 2-year-old Bronx boy who vanished final month was charged along with his son’s homicide Thursday – after video emerged of the heartless dad tossing the toddler into the Bronx River, cops and regulation enforcement sources mentioned.
Arius Williams, 20, was charged with two counts every of homicide and manslaughter within the dying of little Montrell Williams, who was final seen on Might 10, authorities mentioned.
Video reviewed by investigators allegedly reveals Arius launching the little boy into the air and throwing him into the river later that evening, the sources mentioned.
Then on Wednesday afternoon, a baby’s physique – believed to be Montrell’s – washed up close to the Whitestone Bridge simply off Ferry Level Park in Queens, in keeping with the sources.
The badly decomposed physique was swaddled in a blanket, clad in a diaper with a sock on one foot, the sources mentioned.
“We’re coping with two losses,” Leroy Burton, 51, informed reporters as he waited for his son to be arraigned on the Bronx Prison courthouse.
“I misplaced my baby and we misplaced him, too,” he mentioned, referring to his grandson, Montrell.
Arius beforehand labored with youngsters as a trainer’s assistant at a faculty, till a home violence incident final 12 months with Montrell’s mom, his dad mentioned.
“His thoughts is just not there. He’s not the identical particular person we knew,” he mentioned of Arius, whereas his grief-stricken spouse stared on the flooring.
Over the past couple of months, Arius had been struggling with psychological well being points, strolling “forwards and backwards, speaking to himself, laughing, trying on the wall, all sort of bizarre stuff,” Burton added.
Earlier than the heartbreaking crime, the younger dad – who had break up custody of Montrell – took him to a Mom’s Day gathering, the place he apparently bought right into a scuffle along with his personal mom and stormed off with the toddler, sources mentioned.
Within the days to return, the boy’s involved 17-year-old mother known as the cops, who appeared to have informed her they couldn’t intervene if her son was on a recurrently scheduled go to, the sources mentioned.
When each dad and mom bumped into one another on the road Sunday, Arius allegedly pulled a knife on his ex and claimed he threw their son off the Bruckner Bridge, in keeping with the sources.
“They need to have put out the lacking individuals report [earlier],” Burton mentioned. “They might have put it out…We might have had closure earlier. We didn’t need to undergo all this agonizing ache.”
“I simply want we might return in time, that’s what I want so this entire factor wouldn’t have gone on,” he added.
The NYPD’s Inside Affairs Bureau is probing the division’s investigative work surrounding Montrell’s case, sources have mentioned.
Arius was taken into custody Monday on custodial interference costs, after refusing to inform a household court docket decide his son’s whereabouts, cops and sources mentioned.
