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Daily Mail
18-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Mouthpiece 'minister' for teen at heart of explosive murder case defends his OWN criminal past in 13-minute rant
The man who has become the spokesman for Texas teen murder suspect, Karmelo Anthony, is defending his previous run-ins with the law. In an unhinged, nearly 13-minute video rant, Anthony's representative Dominique Alexander, 36, complained he's become the target of online attacks, dredging up his rap sheet, which includes a felony conviction. Anthony, 17, has been charged with first degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet April 2. Anthony, who initially fled the track meet after the stabbing, later told arresting officers 'I did it,' when he was taken into custody. He is now claiming self defense. Anthony had not been indicted yet. But it's the criminal history of his advisor, Alexander, who has taken center stage as the case becomes a national flashpoint about race and privilege. 'These cases are old as hell; they old as hell,' Alexander told in a phone interview Tuesday. 'Did you just post an article from 2015, and you're literally holding this up like you got the golden ticket? It's laughable to anybody in North Texas.' The activist's many arrests are well-known in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Long before he attached himself to the high-profile Metcalf/Anthony murder case, Alexander inserted himself to other high-profile cases about race or police shootings in the metroplex - hosting the Black Lives Matter march where seven Dallas Police officers were ambushed and killed by a black man who was not taking part in the march in July 2017. Alexander has been a well-known in the black community in Dallas for over a decade, has been acting as the spokesman for the embattled Anthony. Anthony and Metcalf were attending a track meet on April 2 in Frisco, Texas. Metcalf, a student at Memorial High, confronted Anthony, a student at Centennial High school, who was sitting under the Memorial team tent in the stands and asked him to leave. After words were exchanged by the boys, Anthony pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest, according to the Frisco Police Department. Under Alexander's advice, the Anthony family has gone public about the threats they claim to be getting, hosting a press conference April 17 to talk about their hardships since their son killed another teen. Metcalf's father, Jeff, crashed the press conference and was escorted out by police after reporters recognized him. While claiming he wanted to set the records straight about why Metcalf's father was kicked out, Alexander spent most much of a Monday night video posted to X talking about himself and attacks on him. 'Your attacks towards me only do one thing: boost my ego,' the co-founder of Dallas's Next Generation Action Network railed in the Twitter clip. 'At the end of the day, I was the most-talked about individual over the course of 10 years so trying to use a moment to yet come out and say stuff about my background that I've never hidden,' the convicted felon declared. 'You ain't gotta tell that story. At the end of the day, there's more mug shots than what you actually posted. Let me make that very clear.' Most recently, Alexander spent two days in jail after he pleaded guilty in December 2021 in a felony theft conviction out of Denton County, according to the Dallas Morning News. The case originated from a financial dispute with a company from 2016, where the firm claimed they were owed between $2,500 and $30,000. In April 2019, he was in arrested by Dallas Police after his then-girlfriend Keyaira D. Saunders told police he head-butted and shoved her, causing a broken toe. Those charges were later dismissed, as were charge of 'continuous violence against the family' the same year. 'They want to talk about the family violence... look at it said dismissed. If you find any picture, anything credible that I hit somebody, I would resign as NGAN president,' the activist added about the Next Generation Action Network. He says he co-founded the organization in 2014 while he was on probation. In 2011, Alexander was found guilty of felony injury to a child, according to the local outlet, for violently shaking a boy. Additionally, he convicted of stealing a car, forging a check, making a false report and evading arrest,' the Dallas paper reported. In a recent Facebook post, Karmelo Anthony fixer Dominique Alexander claimed he would not be shamed over his criminal history In the interview with Tuesday, Alexander doubled down, calling himself 'an open book' about being a convicted felon. 'If you're going to look at them, look at the entirety of the case. I didn't seal those records, I didn't seal for a reason. MaryAnn, if you ask me, 'Did I evade from a police officer, yes I did. I'm an open book. The public didn't find out about my background when I founded NGAN in 2014. I told it.' He recently took to Facebook to say he wasn't going to be shamed for his rap sheet, an sentiment he echoed while speaking with DM. 'I've been the most talked about individual in a long time,' he said, prompting us to download the app for local TV station WFAA. 'You'll literally see my image on there. I didn't grow out yesterday. Nobody found out about me yesterday. Ain't no body found out about that background yesterday. It's been well documented.' He also bragged about the many national cases he's being involved with, including the Botham Jean case, where a black man was shot in his own apartment after a white, female Dallas police officer claims she mistakenly shot him after thinking she a stranger was in her apartment. A jury didn't buy Officer Amber Guyger's story and convicted her of murder in the 2018 deadly shooting and sentenced to 10 years in prison. 'The Dallas Observer article when they made me Person of the Year in 2015, I literally talked about my background because that's my story. When I founded this organization, I was literally on probation. MaryAnn, don't look like I was trying to hide it.' Alexander also claims to be a minister, with the title included before his name on his Twitter account. When asked about it, he first claimed he was a minister at Friendship West Baptist Church. The church told us he was a member there, not a minister. When pressed on the matter, Alexander said he was a member of True Love Missionary Baptist Church and but couldn't provide a year or any proof that he's an ordained minister. 'At the end of the day, when you are trying to challenge a stereotype in a system and when you are trying to tell a story of the struggle of black people and opposed people in America, you also got to tell your story transparently and authentically,' Alexander stated.
CBS News
17-04-2025
- CBS News
Watch Live: Karmelo Anthony's parents to speak publicly in Dallas for first time since fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf
The parents of the teen accused of fatally stabbing a Frisco ISD student at a track meet earlier this month is speaking out for the first time since the incident. Karmelo Anthony's parents will speak publicly Thursday morning about the case alongside the Next Generation Action Network, the family's new attorneys. According to a press release from NGAN, the family has heard false information, misinformation and hateful attacks , which they said misrepresent the family and the case. "This is a moment for truth," Minister Dominique Alexander, president of NGAN, siad. "The Anthony family deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves, to clear the record, and to share the impact this has had on their lives—not through the lens of speculation, but through their own words." In the wake of the fatal stabbing at a Frisco high school track meet, the CBS News Texas I-Team found a surge of misinformation has swept through social media platforms, causing confusion and fear. High-profile X accounts (formerly Twitter), including @EndWokeness and @LibsofTikTok, quickly amplified the incident just hours after it occurred on April 2, claiming it received "zero national outrage" and didn't "fit the narrative." These posts garnered nearly 50 million views. Soon after, a fake X account posing as the Frisco Police Chief began disseminating fabricated details about the investigation . The next day, a fake autopsy report surfaced on Facebook, falsely claiming drugs were involved. The disinformation continued to spread, with fake Instagram screenshots of guns further fueling anger and uncertainty. The CBS News Confirm team, along with law enforcement, confirmed these social media posts to be fabricated. The consequences of this disinformation on the fatal Frisco stabbing case have been severe – both the victim and the suspect's families have had their home addresses posted online and have received threats. Extra security was present at the funeral of Austin Metcalf due to online posts.
