An internet fundraiser for Karmelo Anthony, the Texas highschool scholar accused of stabbing fellow 17-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to dying at a Frisco, Texas, monitor meet final week, is nearing $150,000 in whole donations.
“The narrative being unfold is fake, unjust, and dangerous,” the Anthony household stated in a press release on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo. “As a household of religion, we’re deeply grateful for all your help throughout this making an attempt interval. Your prayers and help imply extra to us now greater than ever.”
The fund, known as the Assist Karmelo Official Fund, was set as much as help “Karmelo and his household throughout this difficult and troublesome time.”
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File picture of Austin Metcalf, a junior at Memorial Excessive College in Frisco, who was stabbed within the chest allegedly by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial Excessive College. (Courtesy Jeff Metcalf)
The whole quantity raised is $144,873, and the fundraising aim has been set at $200,000.
The boys have been competing within the state’s College Interscholasic League’s District 11-5A championship meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco when an altercation between them turned lethal.
Anthony has been charged with first-degree homicide stemming from the lethal altercation between the boys. He claims he was performing in self-defense.
He’s presently being held within the Collins County Jail on a $1 million bond, an quantity that his legal professional is asking the courtroom to scale back.
Karmelo Anthony, 17, was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide. (FOX DFW)
“I do know that my consumer stated it was self-defense. I haven’t got any motive to disbelieve that, however I must develop info, speak to folks and work out what is going on on earlier than I make any statements about what I believe occurred,” legal professional Deric Walpole, who was employed by Anthony’s household Friday, instructed KXAS-TV. “I haven’t got any motive to suppose it wasn’t self-defense presently.”
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Anthony instructed police he did stab Metcalf however says that Metcalf put his arms on him first, based on FOX 4. Anthony additionally reportedly requested police whether or not what he did may very well be thought of self-defense.
The most recent feedback from donors on the GiveSendGo platform expressed help for Anthony.
“Self protection in a stand your floor state this younger man did nothing fallacious and has the suitable to defend himself because the authorized system stated it was proper for Daniel Penny and Kyle Rittenhouse it’s proper for him too,” stated one remark.
File picture of Jeff Metcalf, left, together with his son, Austin Metcalf, a junior at Memorial Excessive College in Frisco, who was stabbed within the chest allegedly by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial Excessive College. (Courtesy Jeff Metcalf)
One other remark urged that racism was responsible.
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“keep sturdy younger brother, all of us which have got here up on this nation hope to by no means undergo this or see others like us undergo this, however it’s an unlucky actuality of this nation that these folks can seem to do as they like till we make a drastic and lasting change,” one other remark stated. “Let your authorized be the battle one of many many victories on this seemingly everlasting battle towards racism and evil.”
Fox Information’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
