Convicted killer Karmelo Anthony's family used fundraiser money for moving and living expenses

Karmelo Anthony volition service his condemnation portion it appears the fundraising run for his household organized by his mother, Kala Hayes, has been taken down.

Anthony was convicted of execution and sentenced to 35 years down bars connected Tuesday. He has since filed a announcement of entreaty to situation the conviction.

The fundraiser was posted connected GiveSendGo, an planetary crowdfunding platform, connected April 15, 2025. It was little than 2 weeks aft Anthony fatally stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a precocious schoolhouse way conscionable successful Frisco, Texas.

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The fundraiser for convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony and his household has been taken down from the GiveSendGo crowdfunding website. (GiveSendGo)

All the while, the fundraiser for Anthony and his family, titled, "Help Karmelo Official Fund," initially had a extremity of generating astir $1.4 million, and raised conscionable shy of $634,000.

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The now-defunct fundraiser shared this purpose, according to the website:

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The online fundraiser for Karmelo Anthony and his family, organized by his mother, Kala Hayes, has been scrubbed from the GiveSendGo website. (GiveSendGo)

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"While legal defense is a captious portion of this journey, we privation to marque it wide that this money is not solely dedicated to ineligible expenses. The funds raised volition besides enactment a scope of urgent and indispensable means that person emerged arsenic a effect of the situation, including – but not constricted to – the harmless relocation of the Anthony household owed to escalating threats to their information and well-being, arsenic good arsenic basal surviving costs, transportation, counseling, and different information measures."

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It was not instantly wide wherever the Anthony household moved to from their Frisco, Texas home.

However, a antheral who identifies himself arsenic Anthony's begetter connected Facebook, Drew Anthony, has publically posted successful his illustration that helium presently lives successful New Orleans, Louisiana.

A antheral who identifies himself arsenic the begetter of Karmelo Anthony appears to unrecorded successful New Orleans, Louisiana (Facebook)

In a station connected X, GiveSendGo wrote successful part: 

"The fundraiser was created to enactment pre-trial needs, and those funds were dispersed implicit the past twelvemonth for lawful purposes, including ineligible defence and household relocation with that stated intent present implicit the fundraiser has been closed. Our argumentation is that a fundraiser stated intent stays close truthful givers ever cognize what they are supporting."

While 1 fundraiser was scrubbed, different has reportedly reappeared successful enactment of the Anthony family. A caller fundraising run was started by Dominique Alexander. Anthony's household has had Dallas-based civilian rights activistic Minister Dominque Alexander arsenic a spokesperson passim the case.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Anthony family, Alexander and GiveSendGo for comment.