New York — A 20 -year -old father was called on charges of second degree killing and unintended killing on the death of his two -year -old son, who is supposed to be dead in the East River in New York this week.
During a trial, prosecutors claim that the child was alive when he was thrown into the river.
Police said they had a video of Father, Arius Williams, when he claimed that he threw the child until he died at 11:57 pm on May 10.
Jeanis Yu reports outside the court, where Arius Williams, 20, was called on Thursday for murder.
The video showed its activities before and after the alleged crime, including showing that the child was alive and in my father’s arms on a video of observation immediately before that.
The child was standing, at a point, then the video shows Williams throwing the child over the bridge, then walking in front of a fuel station without the child.
Police believed that they had found the body of Monerrell Williams, which was missing for a month, in the East River on Wednesday.
The authorities are still waiting for a positive identity of the medical examiner.
The father in the Family Court of Bronx on Monday to respond to an order not to give the boy to the mother, according to the custody agreement. He was placed in prison by a judge after failing to reveal the child’s place.
William’s mother said that he took the child from the house – wearing a shirt, diapers, with a blanket – after the grandmother said she had entered into an argument.
After leaving the bridge area, the police said that Williams went to a family member’s house and would not explain what happened, then escaped from the family.
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The child was supposed to return to his mother on May 11, and when it was not, the mother contacted the police and went to the Family Court.
Al -Shakawi said that Williams was in a limited contact with the family and did not reveal the child’s location.
Then, on May 28, the Family Court issued an order for the defendant to produce the child, according to the complaint.
On June 8, the child’s mother ran to Williams on the street after he did not hear from him and tries desperately to contact him, she demanded where their child was, according to the complaint.
Williams initially refused, and then transferred her to St. Mary Park, where he claimed that he pulled a knife and threatened the mother, and said that he threw the child in the river, according to the complaint.
The mother continued to follow Williams to Manhattan and contacted the police.
He was detained on a nursery intervention.
The child’s mother was granted a protection order.
The family is struggling to understand the reason
Williams’s mother, her husband and other family members were in a trial on Thursday night, shaking and cried when some details were read from the complaint.
The narrow family of the young father, who is accused of doing an unimaginable, is struggling to understand the cause.
“Nobody expected this at all, because he loved his son. I don’t know what prompted him to do so,” said the grandfather of the suspect Leroy Burton.
The mystery is very painful and confused for the family. They say that the boy’s father recently seemed to have begun to fight with mental health issues.
“The child continued” my father, my father, my father. “This is what crushes me more, that he continued to describe him as” my father, my father. “Alicia Williams said:” He took his life. “
The family remembers Monriel as a sweet and happy child.
Once the body is officially identified on Wednesday, the medical examiner will have to determine how the little boy dies exactly.
Williams face two accusations of every second -degree death charge and unintended murder because the victim is less than 11 years old.
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