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EXCLUSIVE: Texas’s family of Texas, Karmelo Anthony, has been in the center of the national media in recent weeks after the 17 -year -old allegedly stabbed another child at an athletics meeting in Frisco on April 2.
Since the incident, Anthony’s family has raised more than $ 515,000 on the Dada crowdsourcing platform. The Karmelo Anthony help fund has become one of the most discussed funds collection campaigns in recent weeks, collecting half a million dollars for a suspect that, according to the reports, said “I did” about stabbing, but also states that it was in self -defense.
The campaign has not yet reached its $ 600,000 goal, which rose on Tuesday from an earlier target of $ 525,000, so the funds have not been paid to the family.
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Gagoendgo’s co -founder, Jacob Wells, told Pak Gazette Digital that his company has a team that is communicating with the Anthony family on how they plan to use the money once received.
“They have been very clear that the great majority of this money will be used for Karmelo’s legal defense,” Wells said, and then added: “They have indicated that part of them will be used to provide them with certain security, certain very necessary security.”
Wells also said: “And then also, a safe location to live … They were renting before, and continue to rent. So it’s like, it’s okay, $ 3,000 a month for next year, year and a half.”
Wells refused to reveal something more specific than that.
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Pak Gazette Digital has communicated with the lawyer and spokesman of the family, the president of Next Generation Action Network (Ngan), Dominique Alexander, to comment.
The description of the fund collection page has changed since it was launched.
The Fundraiser’s Purpose Currently Reads, “WHILE LEGAL DEFENSE IS A CRITICAL PART OF THIS JOURNEY, WE WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS FUND IS SOLELY DEDICATED TO LEGAL EXPENSES. -But not limited to-The Safe Relocation of the Anthony Family Due To Escalating Threats to Their Safety and Well-Being, As Well As Basic Living Costs, Transportation, Advice and other security measures. ”
The page previously did not reveal the purpose of the funds.
“We sent an email to all who donated … because there was some confusion at the beginning about whether it was specifically a legal defense fund or if it was open for other things,” Wells said.
“They updated their campaign to say ‘Hello, here are some of the things we will spend money.
The murdered house of Texas Texas Austin Metcalf jumped hours after the tense show of the press conference
Wells added that if the funds of a campaign were used to buy something that was not properly represented on the fund collection page, it would be a violation of the policy and the reasons for the elimination of the company.
Wells says that he has withdrawn another collection of funds on his site for fraudulently collecting money for travel expenses, while the organizer intended to use the money to buy a weapon. However, he specified that this is not the case with the Anthony fund.
Anthony was recently He moved from his house to an “unleashed place to guarantee its immediate safety” after an “alarming increase in death threats, continuous harassment and physical intimidation aimed at the family of the family,” Ngan said in a statement last week.
According to the statement, the threats included the people wandering and taking photos of the current residence of the Anthony family, deliveries of unwanted foods that Ngan said were “made to disturb and harass the family” and an email from the Metcalf’s obituary to the home, which was also described as “disturbing.”
“We are sharing images and documentation of the threats that the family has faced last weekend so that the public aware of the dangerous atmosphere that has been created, an atmosphere fed by organized hatred, systemic racism and intentional erroneous information,” the group said.
Anthony was released from Collin County prison after his bonus was reduced from $ 1 million to $ 250,000 last Monday. He is accused of first degree murder.
Karmelo Anthony, on the left, and Austin Metcalf. (Fox 4/Jeff Metcalf)
Meanwhile, the Metcalf family has been victims of the coup in recent weeks, the Frisco Police Department previously confirmed. Swatting is when a 911 call is made, generally to inform a false violent crime, to obtain the police and, sometimes, even the SWAT teams, to respond to the address given by the person who calls.
According to the reports, Anthony confessed stabbing Metcalf when he was arrested by a school resource officer at the Kuykendall stadium in the minutes after the attack.
When an officer told another who had the alleged suspect of stabbing in custody, Anthony apparently said: “I am not alleged. I did it,” according to the incident arrest report.
Anthony also asked officers if Metcalf “was going to be fine” and asked if what happened could be considered “self -defense.”
