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Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Father of slain Austin Metcalf makes desperate last-ditch attempt to stop high school REWARDING his killer
The father of a teen football star who was stabbed to death at a college track meet has challenged a school's decision to let his killer graduate. Jeffrey Metcalf has filed a formal complaint about Centennial High School awarding Karmelo Anthony his diploma - despite being accused of murdering his son Austin. Anthony, 18, is alleged to have pulled the knife on 17-year-old Austin at the stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, before his victim bled out in his twin brother's arms. The sickening attack has since sparked a toxic culture war as some rowed in behind the attacker and raised over $500,000 for his defense. The killer's spokesman confirmed to Jeffrey had challenged the school's decision to award him a diploma despite confessing to the horrific crime. Dominque Alexander continued: 'Now you have a father filing a complaint to the TEA (Texas Education Agency).' It is unclear what the filing means in practice, but it is understood to be one of few ways the grieving father can contest the graduation. The confrontation between Anthony and Metcalf stemmed from Anthony sitting under the team tent of a school he did not belong to. When Metcalf, who attended Memorial High School. asked Anthony to move, the murder suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the chest Frisco Independent School District had wanted to expel Anthony over the killing of Austin, a student at nearby Memorial High School. An expulsion would have automatically meant he would not graduate. But hours after a dramatic press conference last month Alexander said the school reversed the move. It is understood Anthony will still not be allowed to participate in the ceremony or walk on the stage as he remains under house arrest. Frisco ISD declined to comment. Alexander said last week: 'We are in arrangements of doing an early gradation. They have agreed to allow him to graduate. They were literally trying to expel him - period.' Anthony fled the track scene after the horrific attack, leaving Austin to bleed out in his twin brother's arms in the stands. He was arrested by officers and confessed 'I did it' when he was taken into custody. He has since tried to claim self-defense. Outrage spread after the teen's bond was lowered from $1million to $250,000, securing Anthony's release from jail. During the bond hearing, Anthony's father testified about their financial hardship since he son became a murder suspect. exclusively reported on the $900,000 home in a gated community the Anthony's were renting while claiming to be poor. One neighbor said: 'Not good. Not good. I don't think he should be out. I don't understand why he had a knife? 'My kids were in track. Your tents, for you school, you don't sit under another school's tent. 'That is not done because everyone leaves their stuff there while they're out on events. 'Why would you stab someone? And now he's a few doors down. It's very scary. Like could he rob houses? I don't know.' The neighbors told that they did not want Anthony living in their exclusive enclave. 'The best thing they can do is move,' one said. 'I think that would be best for everyone.' Anthony eventually did leave the house, claiming his address had been leaked online and he was no longer safe. He is now at an undisclosed location.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Memorial High students head to global fair with winning AI project
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Local high school students are taking their science skills to a global level after winning big at the Red River Science and Engineering Fair. Now they've been selected to compete at one of the most prestigious science competitions in the world. Stamp Out Hunger drive to collect food in Wichita Falls area, nationwide Evan Liang, Jimin and Jun Park are students at Memorial High School who developed a project that uses artificial intelligence to detect hand gestures for prosthetic devices. It was so impressive that it earned them an invitation to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Columbus Ohio to show the world what they've created. Their project focuses on improving prosthetic limb function through AI and electromyogram signals. It stood out among dozens at the Red River Regional Science and Engineering Fair at Midwestern State University, and now Red River is paying for the students to go to Ohio to present it on a global stage shared by some of the brightest young minds in science. Their project uses deep learning algorithms and non-invasive electromyogram signals to detect hand gestures. The Park brothers said not only will this help them in the fields they plan to pursue going forward, but they also have hopes this technology could help improve the way many people use prosthetics, including their grandfather. 'We have a grandfather who is an amputee, and we understand how difficult it is for him to apply the prosthetic and how awkward it is for him to move around. So, our research in this field of electric limbs and bionic arms can potentially help people like our grandfather', said Jun Park. The team said they're proud to be representing Wichita Falls and hope their work can spark real-world change. The students will head to Ohio for the science fair the week of May 11, joining students from across the globe to present their research in hopes of bringing home the $100,000 grand prize. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hindustan Times
04-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
Shiloh Hendricks raises more than $591K after racist rant, draws comparison to Karmelo Anthony fundraiser
Shiloh Hendricks, a woman who was seen in a viral video hurling racial slurs towards a child at a Rochester park, has raised more than $591K on GiveSendGo. The video showed a man confronting Hendricks for using the n-word. Hendricks claimed she lost her cool after the child stole a diaper bag from her 18-month-old baby. Her fundraiser has now drawn comparisons to that of Karmelo Anthony. Hendricks said in the fundraiser that she needs money to 'protect' her family. She claimed that a man, who she alleged had 'a history with law enforcement,' recorded her and posted the videos of the incident online 'which has caused my family, and myself, great turmoil.' She added, 'My SSN has been leaked. My address, and phone number have been given out freely. My family members are being attacked. My eldest child may not be going back to school. Even where I exercise has been exposed.' Hendricks further wrote, 'I am asking for your help to assist in protecting my family. I fear that we must relocate. I have two small children who do not deserve this. We have been threatened to the extreme by people online. Anything will help! We cannot, and will not live in fear!' As the video went viral and Hendricks' fundraiser surfaced, many came out in her support. Some, however, refused to help and pointed out how wrong she was to abuse a child. On social media, Hendricks' fundraiser is being compared to that of Anthony, a teenager accused of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death during a rain delay at a high school track meet. Before the stabbing, which took place at Memorial High School in Frisco in April, Metcalf had reportedly asked Anthony, who is black, to leave the event since he did not attend that school. Matcalf was white. A GiveSendGo page raised at least $515,000 for Anthony. Many compared the two fundraisers on X, with some pointing out how 'no one flinched' during the Metcalf incident, and yet questioned Hendricks, whose crime was not as heinous as Anthony's. Some, on the other hand, pointed out that both the incidents prove that 'being evil pays.' Here's a look at some posts on X:
Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Daily Mail
Karmelo Anthony's family to spend huge portion of their $515k GiveSendGo fundraiser on secure home for 'killer'
The family of Karmelo Anthony has made clear that some portion of the hundreds of thousands of dollars they've raised online will go toward finding a secure home for the 17-year-old murder suspect amid 'escalating threats.' Anthony is accused of killing Austin Metcalf, also 17, during a track meet earlier this month in Frisco, a town just north of Dallas, Texas. The two boys, both star athletes from opposing schools, argued over Anthony supposedly being under the wrong tent. The altercation ended with Anthony stabbing Metcalf, according to police. The enduring attention on the case has been largely due to the fact that Anthony's family has been able to raise more than $515,000 from people who wholeheartedly believe in the boy's innocence. With all the donations flooding in from supporters, the family has clarified why they need all this cash, explaining that it's not just for legal expenses. 'The funds raised will also support a range of urgent and necessary needs that have emerged as a result of this situation, including — 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, counseling, and other security measures,' reads the description of the fundraiser on GiveSendGo. It continued: 'We ask for your continued prayers, support, and solidarity. Your contribution not only helps protect and stabilize the family, but also serves as a powerful message of community care and resistance in the face of injustice.' This message was first written on the Give Send Go page on April 16, two days after Anthony was released from jail on a $250,000 bond. Citing the death threats they were receiving, the Anthony family abandoned the $900,000 home they were renting in a gated community and went into hiding in an undisclosed location. On Saturday, exclusively uncovered that at least one of the threats that prompted the family to move out came from teenagers who drove by the home firing water guns. Frisco cops were called to home April 15 by Andrew Anthony, the suspect's father, around 7:51 pm after two Jeeps with teenage passengers were seen driving past the house through the door bell camera, according to a police incident report obtained by Within the first minute of his interaction with police, Andrew acknowledged the weapons the kids had were 'play guns.' He further described the two Jeeps as having four passengers each, with both white and black males in the cars. Andrew also told police that the 'play guns' were never pointed at them. This latest development comes almost a month after Metcalf was killed on April 2. Witnesses told police the interaction between Anthony and Metcalf started at the track meet that day after Anthony migrated over to the pop-up tent for Memorial High School, where Metcalf attended as a junior. Metcalf was under the impression that Anthony, a senior at Centennial High, should have been under his own school's tent and told him to leave, according to police. That's when Anthony unzipped his bag and reached in, telling Metcalf: 'Touch me and see what happens,' a witness told police. The police affidavit says Metcalf 'grabbed Anthony to tell him to move and Anthony pulled out ... a black knife and stabbed Austin once in the chest.' Metcalf allegedly confronted Anthony in the Memorial High School pop-up tent at a track meet. Anthony responded by pulling out a knife and stabbing Metcalf, according to a witness who spoke to police Metcalf collapsed and died in the arms of his twin brother, Hunter. Meanwhile, Anthony is said to have fled the scene and tossed the knife into the bleachers. He was arrested shortly after and responding officers said Anthony told them he was 'protecting myself' and that Metcalf had 'put his hands on me.' Anthony also told officers, 'I'm not the alleged, I did it,' according to the affidavit. Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder. Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said earlier this month he expects a grand jury will decide whether to uphold the charge by late June. If the grand jury votes to indict, that will send the case to trial, unless a plea bargain materializes. However, that's unlikely, as one of Anthony's defense attorneys, Mike Howard, has suggested the teen will claim he killed Metcalf in self-defense. If convicted, Anthony will not face the death penalty or life in prison without parole, as the Supreme Court has ruled that those sentences for juvenile offenders constitute cruel and unusual punishment, violating the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
New York Post
30-04-2025
- New York Post
GiveSendGo co-founder ‘not proud' to host fundraiser for alleged track meet murder suspect, says some donors are ‘wrong'
More than $514,000 has been donated to the 'Help Karmelo Anthony Official Fund' on the crowd-sourcing site This half-million-dollar sum is the result of an alleged murder that occurred at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, on April 2. The victim was 17-year-old Austin Metcalf of Memorial High School, who died in a deadly stabbing. The suspect, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of Centennial High School, was just released from jail on bond after lawyers reduced his bail from $1 million. Anthony has told police that he 'did it' – meaning the murder – but has claimed it was in self-defense. He has been charged with first-degree murder. Now, GiveSendGo is leading in online fundraising for the Anthony's family legal expenses. Other major crowd-sourcing platforms, including GoFundMe and Kickstarter, have not platformed a campaign for Anthony on their sites. But GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells and his leadership team are featuring Anthony's campaign. 'How proud am I of this campaign? I don't, I wouldn't say I'm proud at all,' Wells told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. 8 Karmelo Anthony's booking photo from the Collin County Sheriff's Office. Collin County 'I have no pride in having this being on GiveSendGo. I just have appreciation for what GiveSendGo is doing in the midst of these tragic moments, which is standing on principle, which is loving people even in the midst of very hard and dark places.' Wells admitted that there have been other campaigns on his site, like a foster home for boys fundraiser, that he is proud of. But Anthony's fundraiser is not one of those. Wells claimed his company has only ever removed campaigns for causes deemed 'illegal,' or raising money under false pretenses. He says he's taken down a fundraiser for fraudulently raising money for travel expenses while the organizer intended to use the money to buy a gun. Wells declined to directly say whether there were any conversations about removing the campaign, but insists that 'pretty much' everyone involved in leadership at the company has been supportive of platforming it. 8 A fundraiser set up for Karmelo Anthony from April 18, 2025. 8 Austin Metcalf died at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas on April 4, 2025. Family Handout Wells compared the Anthony fund to the one his platform hosted for Kyle Rittenhouse in 2020. That effort raised over $250,000 after Rittenhouse shot three men in Kineshoa, Wisconsin, during the Jacob Blake riots. But now Anthony's campaign has raised more than twice that number, and is looking for more. As Wells and his colleagues have faced backlash and death threats, he said he's had a conversation about donating the profits of the fundraiser to the Metcalf family to try and make a point that they aren't just platforming Anthony's fund for financial gain. Wells has also paid special attention to this campaign in recent weeks, as it's been one of the biggest and most notorious his platform has ever hosted. He's gone out of his way to take note of the types of people who are donating, and why they are donating. And to him, some of these people are donating for the 'wrong reasons.' 'There will always be people who are donating for the wrong reasons, on any campaign. There are people that believe the best way forward is racial division. That's what they believe. So they're going to stoke the flames of racial division however they can,' Wells said. 'When you live in free societies, which we do, there's a price to pay, and that is it allows for some people to do things that might not be good. And I think people do that all the time.' Wells pointed specifically to 'championing a racial narrative' as the wrong reason for wanting to donate to the campaign, when asked. 'When someone is championing a racial narrative that is divisive and not unifying, then I would claim that that's a wrong reason to be donating. And there are people that have donated that are making claims that are divisive and not unifying. And those are in some of the comments. ' Unfortunately, in free societies, people can say stuff that is divisive and not unifying,' Wells said. 8 GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells. GiveSendGo 8 Karmelo Anthony is escorted out of court after posting bail and being released on house arrest on April 14, 2025. FOX 4 NEWS 'They go both ways too. We've seen people who have made donations because donating is a way for you to comment on the campaign page… you have people that are on the other side of the aisle and they'll donate the minimum $5 donation just so they can post a comment being derogatory to the Anthony family.' Still, Wells claims that the 'overwhelming majority' of engagement on the fundraiser has not been 'derogatory.' Wells declined to point to any specific comments that represent the 'wrong' reasons. However, some public comments reviewed by Fox News Digital reflect Wells' 'racial narrative' reference. 8 Karmelo Anthony is talked to by Minister Dominique Alexander in a post shared by an activist group. @niquealex/Instagram 'Honestly, even if Karmelo stabbed Austin for no reason at all, I'd still donate and support. Whites have gotten away with killing us for hundreds of years. I could care less about White lives,' read a comment with 53 likes. Wells blamed 'right-wing outrage' for driving support to the fundraiser. 'The outrage of the right has fueled the response of the other side,' Wells said, adding that he saw similar patterns occur due to the left-wing response to the Rittenhouse fund and when his site hosted a campaign to support Daniel Penny after killing Jordan Neely in defense of New York City subway riders in 2023. 8 Karmelo Anthony's parents and lawyer appear at a press conference on April 22, 2025. NGAN Representatives for the Anthony family have referenced race while comparing Anthony's situation to Rittenhouse's and Penny's. Next Generation Action Network (NGAN) president Dominique Alexander made the comparison at a press conference on April 17. 'Because these racist bigots try to prevent us from standing up for our baby, our boy, he should be afforded the same rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had, Daniel Penny and all the people who have claimed whatever their defense was – he should be afforded the same right,' Alexander said. 8 As Wells and his colleagues have faced backlash and death threats, he said he's had a conversation about donating the profits of the fundraiser to the Metcalf family to try and make a point that they aren't just platforming Anthony's fund for financial gain. Meghan Prall Metcalf/Facebook Anthony was recently moved from his home to an 'undisclosed location to ensure his immediate safety' following an 'alarming increase in death threats, continued harassment, and physical intimidation targeted at the family's home,' NGAN said in a statement last week. Meanwhile, the Metcalf family has been victims of swatting in recent weeks, the Frisco Police Department (FPD) previously confirmed. Swatting is when a 911 call is made, usually to report a fake violent crime, to get police and sometimes even SWAT teams, to respond to the address given by the caller. Metcalf's father, Jeff Metcalf, previously told Fox News, 'I want to clarify something right off to start because I've already heard some rumors and gossip. This was not a race thing. This is not a political thing. 'Do not politicize this. It's not … this is a human being thing. This person made a bad choice and affected both his family and my family forever.'
