Murder Charges for Father Who Allegedly Threw His Toddler off NY Bridge

Murder Charges for Father Who Allegedly Threw His Toddler off NY Bridge


A New York father’s two-year-old son was still alive when he allegedly threw him off a bridge and weeks later boasted to the child’s worried mother: “Shut the fuck up! I threw that n***a into the river.”

That was the damning account presented by prosecutors at the arraignment of Arius Williams, 20, late Thursday in a New York courtroom after a body believed to be his son’s was fished from the Bronx River on Wednesday.

Prosecutors charged Williams with two counts each of murder and manslaughter in the death of his son.

Evidence cited included a video reviewed by investigators that allegedly showed Williams tossing little Montrell Williams into the air and throwing him into the river just before midnight May 10, the

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