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” connected the crowd-sourcing tract GiveSendGo.com.

This half-million-dollar sum is the effect of an alleged murder that occurred astatine a way conscionable successful Frisco, Texas, connected April 2. 

The unfortunate was 17-year-old Austin Metcalf of Memorial High School, who died successful a deadly stabbing.

The suspect, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of Centennial High School, was conscionable released from jailhouse connected enslaved aft lawyers reduced his bail from $1 million. 

Anthony has told constabulary that helium “did it” – meaning the execution – but has claimed it was successful self-defense. He has been charged with first-degree murder.

Now, GiveSendGo is starring successful online fundraising for the Anthony’s household ineligible expenses.

Other large crowd-sourcing platforms, including GoFundMe and Kickstarter, person not platformed a run for Anthony connected their sites.

But GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells and his enactment squad are featuring Anthony’s campaign. 

“How arrogant americium I of this campaign? I don’t, I wouldn’t accidental I’m arrogant astatine all,” Wells told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interview. 

“I person nary pridefulness successful having this being connected GiveSendGo. I conscionable person appreciation for what GiveSendGo is doing successful the midst of these tragic moments, which is lasting connected principle, which is loving radical adjacent successful the midst of precise hard and acheronian places.” 

Wells admitted that determination person been different campaigns connected his site, similar a foster location for boys fundraiser, that helium is arrogant of. But Anthony’s fundraiser is not 1 of those. 

Wells claimed his institution has lone ever removed campaigns for causes deemed “illegal,” oregon raising wealth nether mendacious pretenses.

He says he’s taken down a fundraiser for fraudulently raising wealth for question expenses portion the organizer intended to usage the wealth to bargain a gun. 

Wells declined to straight accidental whether determination were immoderate conversations astir removing the campaign, but insists that “pretty much” everyone progressive successful enactment astatine the institution has been supportive of platforming it. 

Wells compared the Anthony money to the 1 his level hosted for Kyle Rittenhouse successful 2020. That effort raised implicit $250,000 aft Rittenhouse changeable 3 men successful Kineshoa, Wisconsin, during the Jacob Blake riots. 

But present Anthony’s run has raised much than doubly that number, and is looking for more.

As Wells and his colleagues person faced backlash and decease threats, helium said he’s had a speech astir donating the profits of the fundraiser to the Metcalf family to effort and marque a constituent that they aren’t conscionable platforming Anthony’s money for fiscal gain. 

Wells has besides paid peculiar attraction to this run successful caller weeks, arsenic it’s been 1 of the biggest and astir notorious his level has ever hosted.

He’s gone retired of his mode to instrumentality enactment of the types of radical who are donating, and wherefore they are donating. 

And to him, immoderate of these radical are donating for the “wrong reasons.” 

“There volition ever beryllium radical who are donating for the incorrect reasons, connected immoderate campaign. There are radical that judge the champion mode guardant is radical division. That’s what they believe. So they’re going to stoke the flames of radical part nevertheless they can,” Wells said. “When you unrecorded successful escaped societies, which we do, there’s a terms to pay, and that is it allows for immoderate radical to bash things that mightiness not beryllium good. And I deliberation radical bash that each the time.” 

Wells pointed specifically to “championing a radical narrative” arsenic the incorrect crushed for wanting to donate to the campaign, erstwhile asked. 

“When idiosyncratic is championing a radical communicative that is divisive and not unifying, past I would assertion that that’s a incorrect crushed to beryllium donating. And determination are radical that person donated that are making claims that are divisive and not unifying. And those are successful immoderate of the comments. ” Unfortunately, successful escaped societies, radical tin accidental worldly that is divisive and not unifying,” Wells said. 

“They spell some ways too. We’ve seen radical who person made donations due to the fact that donating is simply a mode for you to remark connected the run page… you person radical that are connected the different broadside of the aisle and they’ll donate the minimum $5 donation conscionable truthful they tin station a remark being derogatory to the Anthony family.” 

Still, Wells claims that the “overwhelming majority” of engagement connected the fundraiser has not been “derogatory.” 

Wells declined to constituent to immoderate circumstantial comments that correspond the “wrong” reasons. However, immoderate nationalist comments reviewed by Fox News Digital bespeak Wells’ “racial narrative” reference. 

“Honestly, adjacent if Karmelo stabbed Austin for nary crushed astatine all, I’d inactive donate and support. Whites person gotten distant with sidesplitting america for hundreds of years. I could attraction little astir White lives,” work a remark with 53 likes. 

Wells blamed “right-wing outrage” for driving enactment to the fundraiser. 

“The outrage of the close has fueled the effect of the different side,” Wells said, adding that helium saw akin patterns hap owed to the left-wing effect to the Rittenhouse money and erstwhile his tract hosted a run to support Daniel Penny aft sidesplitting Jordan Neely successful defence of New York City subway riders successful 2023. 

Representatives for the Anthony household person referenced contention portion comparing Anthony’s concern to Rittenhouse’s and Penny’s. 

Next Generation Action Network (NGAN) president Dominique Alexander made the examination astatine a property league connected April 17. 

“Because these racist bigots effort to forestall america from lasting up for our baby, our boy, helium should beryllium afforded the aforesaid rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had, Daniel Penny and each the radical who person claimed immoderate their defence was – helium should beryllium afforded the aforesaid right,” Alexander said. 

Anthony was recently moved from his home to an “undisclosed determination to guarantee his contiguous safety” pursuing an “alarming summation successful decease threats, continued harassment, and carnal intimidation targeted astatine the family’s home,” NGAN said successful a connection past week. 

Meanwhile, the Metcalf household has been victims of swatting successful caller weeks, the Frisco Police Department (FPD) previously confirmed.

Swatting is erstwhile a 911 telephone is made, usually to study a fake convulsive crime, to get constabulary and sometimes adjacent SWAT teams, to respond to the code fixed by the caller. 

Metcalf’s father, Jeff Metcalf, antecedently told Fox News, “I privation to clarify thing close disconnected to commencement due to the fact that I’ve already heard immoderate rumors and gossip. This was not a contention thing. This is not a governmental thing.

“Do not politicize this. It’s not … this is simply a quality being thing. This idiosyncratic made a atrocious prime and affected some his household and my household forever.”