August 10, 2025
The household is suing the police division for wrongful demise, negligence, emotional misery, and acutely aware ache and struggling skilled by Montrell Williams previous to his demise.
The mom and grandmother of Montrell Williams, the two-year-old toddler whose physique was found within the Bronx River by New York Police Division officers on June 11, filed a $60 million lawsuit towards the NYPD on August 7. The next day, throughout a press convention, they accused the police of missing urgency of their search efforts after Montrell went lacking on Mom’s Day.
Based on Gothamist, Ciera Carroll, the boy’s 17-year-old mom, mentioned in a information convention outdoors of the NYPD’s fortieth Precinct that after she knowledgeable them that the daddy of the kid, and the first suspect in his homicide, 20-year-old Arius Williams, had a warrant for his arrest, the NYPD reportedly informed her “So what,” in response.
Based on CBS Information, Williams, who entered a not responsible plea on the fees, is presently charged with homicide and manslaughter and is being held with out bail.
Rev. Kevin McCall, the spokesperson for the household, mentioned that police have been conscious of home violence within the house, and even understanding that historical past, a household court docket nonetheless selected to permit Williams to have some sort of custody association with the kid.
The NYPD “knew that there was a historical past of home violence throughout the house, that throughout the house they knew that the daddy, the mom, the son, whether or not it was psychological abuse or whether or not it was bodily abuse, they knew that due to the historical past,” McCall informed CBS Information.
He additionally informed Pix 11 in a separate assertion, “Two-year-old Montrell Williams must be right here as we speak if it wasn’t for the NYPD being neglectful to find him. No sum of money will deliver him again, nevertheless, the NYPD needs to be held accountable.”
“I would like the NYPD to know what they did. They informed me to not comply with him and to go to the police to file a grievance,” Carroll mentioned. “I informed the police that he had a warrant, they mentioned, ‘So what?’”
Based on her mom, 35-year-old Octavia Roane, the police hung up in her daughter’s face after they mentioned “‘So what’.”
“She’s very harm proper now,” Roane mentioned. “The way in which the police responded, the best way they acted in direction of us, no care on this planet.”
Along with the mom and daughter’s assertions that they referred to as the police a number of occasions earlier than the police mentioned that they declared the kid lacking, the toddler’s different set of grandparents mentioned throughout their son’s arraignment that they filed a number of lacking individuals studies and officers took longer than a month to formally launch a search after initially referring them to household court docket.
“They put them on discover that this youngster is at risk,” Shiraz Khan, a lawyer representing Carroll and Roane of their lawsuit towards New York Metropolis mentioned. “No Amber alert was issued in any respect. And, whereas this youngster’s life was hanging within the stability, they have been pushed to the facet.”
Based on the grievance filed with the town’s Comptroller’s Workplace, ”NYPD officers misclassified the decision as a custody dispute, didn’t provoke a lacking youngster investigation, didn’t challenge an Amber Alert, and took no speedy steps to find or safeguard Montrell.”
Per the declare, the household is suing the police division for wrongful demise, negligence, emotional misery, and acutely aware ache and struggling skilled by Montrell Williams previous to his demise, which they allege occurred by the hands of his father.
Though NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch asserted that the division is presently investigating how the investigation was dealt with, an announcement from the NYPD’s is sticking to the story {that a} lacking individuals declare wasn’t filed till Could 11 was launched on Aug. 8.
“We’ll overview the lawsuit if and when it’s filed. Montrell Williams was murdered on Could tenth. The preliminary grievance was not reported to the NYPD till Could eleventh,” the division said.
The NYPD additionally launched an announcement beforehand, asserting their need to pursue justice for the homicide of the two-year-old.
“The homicide of Montrell Williams is an absolute tragedy, and the NYPD extends our deepest condolences to his household. Our detectives are all the time dedicated to conducting full and thorough investigations, and the arrest of Arius Williams is step one within the pursuit of justice for Montrell’s demise,” the NYPD said on Aug. 4.
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