This is fraud
Family of Karmelo Anthony to use crowdsourced legal funds to buy new house after ‘racist threats’https://t.co/BXWSYzsoUb
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 15, 2025
Karmelo Anthony’s family is profiting off of him admittedly k*lling Austin Metcalf.
The Anthonys have received over $430k from their GiveSendGo fundraiser.
They’re using it partly to buy a new house.
Karmelo needs to spend the rest of his life, not in a new house, but in jail. pic.twitter.com/ytJBT4x2kq
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) April 15, 2025
The family of Karmelo Anthony, who has been charged in the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, plans to use crowdsourced funds raised for Anthony’s defense to move and hire security. They say this is necessary after facing racist threats.
Anthony, who faces first degree murder charges, was in court on Monday, where he was released on $250,000 bond, a reduction of the original $1 million set by the judge. Anthony was also put on house arrest pending trial. Judge Angela Tucker said that “they’ve never had the security issues they’ve faced with this case.”
Prosecutors, who wanted to keep the $1 million bond in place, asked Anthony’s father Andrew why the nearly half million dollars that had been crowdsourced for his son’s defense could not be put toward his bond. In response, the father “disclosed that the cash would be used for security and to help the family move after the threats they have allegedly faced since the killing,” per The Daily Mail.
A spokesperson for the family had said that they’re unable to leave their house after the address was shared online and that the family had faced “graphic and racist threats,” including images of “black children with knives stuck in their head.”