New York authorities searched a river on Monday for a 2-year-old boy who vanished last month and is now believed to be dead.
Reports from WABC reveal that the NYPD is now pointing fingers at Montrell Williams’ 20-year-old father as the prime suspect in the case of throwing him into the Bronx River. Williams went missing on May 10, and camera footage captured him walking along the river with his father.
It has been disclosed that Williams was in the company of his father for a custodial visit at the time of his disappearance. On the same day the toddler vanished, there was an altercation between Williams’ paternal grandmother and her son, as reported by WABC.
It was stated that the grandmother approached the authorities a day after the argument took place. After questioning the 20-year-old about the location of their son and receiving a troubling response, the missing boy’s mother also reached out to the police on Monday.
Sources told WNBC that Williams’ mother spotted her son’s father on the street in Manhattan on Saturday and confronted him about their son. The father was arrested after he allegedly pulled a knife on her, leading her to call the cops.
Sources claimed it was during that incident when Williams’ father said he threw their son in the river. Police said they do not believe Williams’ mother, who is 17, knows where her son is.
Williams’ father appeared in court on Monday, for an arrest warrant that was filed after he failed to return his son to his mother. A judge sent him back to jail when he refused to reveal his son’s whereabouts, according to WABC.
Despite this, Williams’ father has not been criminally charged in connection with his son’s ongoing disappearance. Divers conducted another search at the river on Tuesday.
[Feature Photo: NYPD]
