Co-founder 'not Proud' To Host Fundraiser For Alleged Track Meet Murder Suspect, Says Some Donors Are 'wrong'

EXCLUSIVE: More than $514,000 has been donated to nan "Help Karmelo Anthony Official Fund," connected nan crowd-sourcing tract GiveSendGo.com.

This half-million-dollar sum is nan consequence of an alleged murder that occurred astatine a way meet 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. 

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Anthony has told constabulary that he "did it" – meaning nan execution – but has claimed it was successful self-defense. He has been charged pinch first-degree murder.

Now, GiveSendGo is starring successful online fundraising for nan Anthony's family ineligible expenses. Other awesome 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 activity squad are featuring Anthony's campaign. 

"How proud americium I of this campaign? I don't, I wouldn't opportunity I'm proud 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 nan midst of these tragic moments, which is opinionated connected principle, which is loving group moreover successful nan midst of very difficult and acheronian places." 

Wells admitted that location person been different campaigns connected his site, for illustration a foster location for boys fundraiser. But Anthony's fundraiser is not 1 of those. 

Wells claimed his institution has only ever removed campaigns for causes deemed "illegal," aliases raising money nether mendacious pretenses. He says he's taken down a fundraiser for fraudulently raising money for recreation expenses while nan organizer intended to usage nan money to bargain a gun. 

Wells declined to straight opportunity whether location were immoderate conversations astir removing nan campaign, but insists that "pretty much" everyone progressive successful activity astatine nan institution has been supportive of platforming it. 

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

But now 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, he said he's had a speech astir donating nan profits of nan fundraiser to nan Metcalf family to effort and make a constituent that they aren't conscionable platforming Anthony's money for financial gain. 

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Wells has besides paid typical attraction to this run successful caller weeks, arsenic it's been 1 of nan biggest and astir notorious his level has ever hosted. He's gone retired of his measurement to return statement of nan types of group who are donating, and why they are donating. 

And to him, immoderate of these group are donating for nan "wrong reasons." 

"There will ever beryllium group who are donating for nan incorrect reasons, connected immoderate campaign. There are group that judge nan champion measurement guardant is group division. That's what they believe. So they're going to stoke nan flames of group section nevertheless they can," Wells said. "When you unrecorded successful free societies, which we do, there's a value to pay, and that is it allows for immoderate group to do things that mightiness not beryllium good. And I deliberation group do that each nan time." 

Wells pointed specifically to "championing a group narrative" arsenic nan incorrect logic for wanting to donate to nan campaign, erstwhile asked. 

"When personification is championing a group communicative that is divisive and not unifying, past I would declare that that's a incorrect logic to beryllium donating. And location are group that person donated that are making claims that are divisive and not unifying. And those are successful immoderate of nan comments. " Unfortunately, successful free societies, group tin opportunity worldly that is divisive and not unifying," Wells said. 

"They spell some ways too. We've seen group who person made donations because donating is simply a measurement for you to remark connected nan run page… you person group that are connected nan different broadside of nan aisle and they'll donate nan minimum $5 aid conscionable truthful they tin station a remark being derogatory to nan Anthony family." 

Still, Wells claims that nan "overwhelming majority" of engagement connected nan fundraiser has not been "derogatory." 

Wells declined to constituent to immoderate circumstantial comments that correspond nan "wrong" reasons. However, immoderate nationalist comments reviewed by Fox News Digital bespeak Wells' "racial narrative" reference. 

"Honestly, moreover if Karmelo stabbed Austin for nary logic astatine all, I'd still donate and support. Whites person gotten distant pinch sidesplitting america for hundreds of years. I could attraction little astir White lives," publication a remark pinch 53 likes. 

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Wells blamed "right-wing outrage" for driving support to nan fundraiser. 

"The outrage of nan correct has fueled nan consequence of nan different side," Wells said, adding that he saw akin patterns hap owed to nan left-wing consequence to nan Rittenhouse money and erstwhile his tract hosted a run to support Daniel Penny aft sidesplitting Jordan Neely successful defense of New York City subway riders successful 2023. 

Representatives for nan Anthony family person referenced title while comparing Anthony's business to Rittenhouse's and Penny's. 

Next Generation Action Network (NGAN) president Dominique Alexander made nan comparison astatine a property convention connected April 17. 

"Because these racist bigots effort to forestall america from opinionated up for our baby, our boy, he should beryllium afforded nan aforesaid authorities that Kyle Rittenhouse had, Daniel Penny and each nan group who person claimed immoderate their defense was – he should beryllium afforded nan aforesaid right," Alexander said. 

Anthony was precocious moved from his home to an "undisclosed location to guarantee his contiguous safety" pursuing an "alarming summation successful decease threats, continued harassment, and beingness intimidation targeted astatine nan family's home," NGAN said successful a connection past week. 

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Meanwhile, nan Metcalf family has been victims of swatting successful caller weeks, nan Frisco Police Department (FPD) previously confirmed. Swatting is erstwhile a 911 telephone is made, usually to study a clone convulsive crime, to get constabulary and sometimes moreover SWAT teams, to respond to nan reside fixed by nan caller. 

Metcalf's father, Jeff Metcalf, antecedently told Fox News, "I want to explain thing correct disconnected to commencement because I've already heard immoderate rumors and gossip. This was not a title thing. This is not a governmental thing.

"Do not politicize this. It's not … this is simply a quality being thing. This personification made a bad prime and affected some his family and my family forever."

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