The family of convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony is promoting a new GiveSendGo fundraiser asking for $250,000 to pay for his appeal, after a Collin County jury gave him 35 years for killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.
Their first fundraising campaign already pulled in $633,908, which appeared to have been used to rent a massive house and purchase a new vehicle.
The new fundraiser, created by Trinicia Ricks with attorney Russell Wilson as recipient, has raised over $33,000.
Donations are supposed to sit in a Wilson trust account for filings, transcripts, investigators, and experts only.
The family, the page says, will not touch the money.
Anthony’s mother, Kayla Hayes, ran the first GiveSendGo for legal defense, a move, living costs, counseling, and security.
GiveSendGo took it down after the June conviction.
The Anthony family’s spokesman Dominique Alexander called questions about a car or a house “deliberate lies,” confirmed a safety relocation, and would not itemize what was left or what the family used.
Anthony’s appeal papers called him a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel” less than a day after the verdict, while the family was sitting on more than $600,000 in other people’s donations.
Anthony was convicted of murder in June and sentenced to 35 years after a jury rejected his self-defense argument following less than three hours of deliberation.
Witnesses testified that he had refused repeated requests to leave the rival team’s tent, reached into his bag, warned “Touch me and see what happens,” and then stabbed Metcalf in the chest.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, after the verdict, Anthony’s new pro bono appellate attorneys filed for a new trial and successfully sought Roach’s recusal based on the judge’s post-trial comments affirming that the jury “got it right.”
New evidence was also revealed during the hearing for Anthony’s motion for a new trial, as Collin County prosecutor Bill Wirskye detailed how the convicted murderer had been reported for stalking his ex-girlfriend.
The prosecutor told the court that Anthony’s girlfriend, Valeria Perez, went to school officials that very morning and reported that she had broken up with him and that he was stalking her.
Roughly one hour later, Metcalf was stabbed to death under the Memorial High School tent at David Kuykendall Stadium.
He died in his twin brother’s arms.
Text messages recovered from that morning show Anthony writing “I’m low key on the verge,” a statement Wirskye emphasized as evidence that he was looking for trouble.
The prosecutor further revealed that Anthony had a history of violence, had previously been taken by his parents to a special program at LSU for children who could not keep their hands to themselves, and was obsessed with starting fights.
Most chillingly, Wirskye shared a text in which Anthony fantasized about stabbing someone and then licking the blood off the blade, adding that Anthony “wanted to stab someone.”
KARMELO ANTHONY BOMBSHELL:
Karmelo Anthony’s girlfriend, Valeria, went to the school the morning of the Austin Metcalf stabbing, April 2, 2025, and told school officials she had broken up with Anthony and he was stalking her. One hour later, Austin was dead at the track meet,…— MaryAnn Martinez (@MaryAnnreports) August 20, 2026
Daily Mail reporter MaryAnn Martinez wrote on X:
KARMELO ANTHONY BOMBSHELL:
Karmelo Anthony’s girlfriend, Valeria, went to the school the morning of the Austin Metcalf stabbing, April 2, 2025, and told school officials she had broken up with Anthony and he was stalking her. One hour later, Austin was dead at the track meet, according to Collin County prosecutor Bill Wirskye revealed at Karmelo Anthony’s hearing for a new trial today.
“I’m low key on the verge,” Anthony said in text the morning of the stabbing.
Wirskye says Anthony had a history of violence and wanted to stab someone.
“There is a text message where he fantasizes about stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade,” Wirkskye said of Anthony.
He was obsessed with starting fights, Wirskye added, revealing Anthony had previously been taken to his parents to a special program at LSU for kids who can’t keep their hands to themselves.
These details were part of a 404 motion the state had prepared regarding character and prior acts, which the defense had sought to keep out of the original trial.
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