Staggering Sum family of teen 'Killer' Karmelo Anthony has Received from Strangers...and They Still Want More
More than half a million dollars have been donated online to help confessed teen killer Karmelo Anthony, who is charged with stabbing and killing Austin Metcalf at a track meet in
Texas.
Through an online platform called GiveSendGo, supporters of the murder suspect have raised $533,452 as of Tuesday.
However, Anthony's embattled family is still hoping to get even more money,
raising the goal threshold several times to its current amount of $600,000.
At an April 2 high school track meet in Frisco, a wealthy Dallas suburb, Anthony and Metcalf argued because Anthony was sitting under the team tent of a school he didn't attend.
Then a student at Centennial High School, Anthony seated himself under the tent for Memorial High School athletes who left their personal belongings, like money and phones, under the tent for security while the students participated in events.
Metcalf, 17, a Memorial High junior, asked Anthony to leave.
The confrontation escalated until Anthony pulled out a knife and drove it through Metcalf's chest, leaving the teen to bleed out in his twin brother's arms.
The finances of the Anthony family have been under public scrutiny since the teen's dad claimed to be struggling financially at an April 15 bond hearing, where they asked a judge to
reduce the $1 million bail to $250,000 so they could get the then 17-year-old out of jail.
At the time, Anthony's parents claimed they have not received any of the money that had been raised for them online, and that the funds had been earmarked for their
son's legal defense, not to pay the bond.
However, as DailyMail.com exclusively reported, the mom, dad mom, Anthony and several younger siblings were living behind the luxury of a
gated community in a $900,000 home in Frisco while crying poor to the court.
The online fundraiser now says, the money will be used for several purposes.
The jaw-dropping amount of money that has been donated to help confessed teen killer Karmelo Anthony, who is charged with stabbing and killing Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Texas.
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