EXCLUSIVE Karmelo Anthony's brutal reality check after murder indictment for stabbing and killing high school athlete
Karmelo Anthony could be sent back to jail after being indicted on first-degree murder charges for fatally stabbing a fellow high school athlete during a track meet, the Daily Mail has learned.
The 18-year-old, who admitted to attacking and stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf in Frisco, Texas, in April, is currently under house arrest.
However, his spokesman, Dominique Alexander, told the Daily Mail that Anthony may be returned to custody following his indictment by a Collin County grand jury on Tuesday.
Now that the indictment is in place, the case will be assigned to a district judge who could overturn a controversial decision by a magistrate to reduce Anthony's bond from $1 million to $250,000.
'We don't know who the judge will be,' Alexander said. 'But any judge can make any decision they want. It's entirely up to them.'
Anthony was 17 at the time of the incident and has since turned 18. He maintains he acted in self-defense during the altercation at the high school meet in the affluent Dallas suburb.
However, he has yet to explain why he brought a weapon to a school-sanctioned event.
Local police say the boys exchanged words when Metcalf challenged Anthony, a student at Centennial High School, for sitting under the team tent for Memorial High School.
'A lot of stuff gets stolen,' Hunter, Metcalf's twin who was also there, told Fox News hours after he watched his brother die.
'Our coaches always told us don't let other schools mess with our stuff.'
Anthony was arrested shortly after the attack, telling arresting officers who called him the alleged killer, 'I'm not alleged. I did it'
After spending about two weeks behind bars, Anthony's father went before a local judge, claiming the family had no money and requesting their teen son's bond be lowered from $1 million.
In a widely criticized decision, Magistrate Judge Angela Tucker agreed to lower Anthony's bond to $250,000 on the condition he remain under house arrest and in the custody of his dad.
Under the conditions of the house arrest, the embattled teen must wear an electronic monitor and only leave the house with 'prior approval of the court,' according to public records obtained by DailyMail.com
'Defendant must be supervised by a parent or adult designee at all times. Defendant shall have no contact (direct or indirect) with the family of the alleged victim,' the court order state.
'Defendant may travel to his attorney's office for scheduled meetings approved by the Court. Defendant must check-in with the bailiff of the Court every Friday until the case in indicted into a different Court.'
After his release from jail, Daily Mail exclusively reported how the Anthonys had been renting a nearly $900,000 home in a luxury neighborhood.
Despite having security guards keeping anyone who wasn't authorized by the family out of the swanky community, a judge allowed the teen to relocate after he claimed he was no longer safe in his house.
Alexander told Daily Mail he's had no indication whether the house arrest will be revoked at this time.
'Right now, there's nothing of any violation by Karmelo. Everything has been respected,' he said of the court orders.
'Of course, we would think that the judge, whatever judge it's assigned to, would honor that.'
Regardless of whether Anthony remains under house arrest, the victim's father told Daily Mail Tuesday that he was pleased with the indictment.
'I fully believe that justice will be served for Austin Metcalf,' his father Jeff said.
'I look forward to the forthcoming trial. But it will never bring my son back.'
Just last week, DailyMail.com reported on footage of the stabbing released by the Frisco Independent School District.
The video, recorded on a fixed camera at David Kuykendall Stadium, did not show any fighting, pushing or physical altercation between the boys prior to the knifing.
Instead, the clip viewed by Daily Mail at school district headquarters, showed several people sitting under the Memorial High School team tent.
Without any kind of apparent escalation, people can be seen running and walking away from the tent.
Later, what appears to be Metcalf's body is moved out of the stadium bleachers to a walkway near the bottom of the seating area.
The surveillance appears to challenge the self-defense claim made by the murder suspect, offering little visible evidence that Anthony was in immediate danger before the attack.
The Frisco Police Department would not comment on whether it is the only video of the slaying.
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