Austin Metcalf family facing threats, financial strain as Karmelo Anthony fundraising draws scrutiny

As convicted slayer Karmelo Anthony's household faces questions implicit hundreds of thousands of dollars raised done online fundraisers, the begetter of slain Texas teen Austin Metcalf says his household is inactive dealing with decease threats, harassment and the affectional fallout of the execution much than a twelvemonth later.

Metcalf's begetter Jeff told Fox News Digital that helium and different members of his household proceed to person threatening messages pursuing Anthony's condemnation and sentencing.

"I get substance messages and voicemails that are conscionable vile, disgusting things," Metcalf said connected Thursday. "I woke up this morning. There's 3 of them already."

Metcalf said the threats person besides targeted those closest to him.

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Jeff Metcalf speaks astir the stabbing decease of his son, Austin Metcalf, astatine a precocious schoolhouse way meet. (Jeff Metcalf)

"Someone threatened Hunter's beingness erstwhile we were successful the courthouse," helium said, referring to Austin's duplicate brother.

The Frisco Police Department confirmed to Fox News that it is "tracking respective online threats made against the Metcalf family."

"At this time, we are receiving galore reports from acrophobic citizens and are actively gathering accusation portion investigating each of these threats," constabulary said. "No arrests person been made astatine this point; however, these investigations instrumentality time, and arrests are imaginable arsenic the cases develop.

"For now, we person accrued patrols successful the country of the Metcalf residence to guarantee their information and the information of our assemblage portion we proceed to investigate. We promote anyone who observes a nonstop menace to study it done our app, Tip411, oregon by calling our non-emergency fig at 972-292-6010."

The strain has taken a important toll connected the Metcalf family.

"It has drained maine emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially," Metcalf said.

He said the hostility has extended beyond his contiguous family.

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He recalled an incidental aft tribunal proceedings successful which immoderate of Austin's friends were confronted portion walking to their vehicle.

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People extracurricular Collin County Courthouse respond arsenic a verdict is announced successful the Karmelo Anthony execution proceedings successful McKinney, Texas, connected June 9, 2026. Anthony faces a imaginable beingness condemnation for the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Metcalf astatine a way conscionable successful Frisco, Texas, successful April 2025. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

"They were surrounded by a mob of radical screaming, 'F--- off,' and, 'You're going to upwind up similar Austin,' 'We're going to termination you,'" Metcalf said.

"These are precocious school-age children, 17-, 18-year-old kids," helium said of his son's friends. "They were successful tears."

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Metcalf said the absorption of the nationalist statement has often overlooked the young radical who witnessed Austin's sidesplitting and proceed to unrecorded with the trauma.

"No 1 wants to truly speech about, what astir the kids who were determination who saw it?" helium said. "Who person to woody with this the remainder of their lives."

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A GoFundMe for convicted slayer Karmelo Anthony appears to person been created past abruptly unopen down by the crowdfunding root arsenic of Thursday. (GoFundMe)

Jeff Metcalf says surveillance footage of his lad Austin's fatal stabbing tells a acold antithetic communicative than immoderate of the claims that person circulated online since the deadly confrontation astatine a Texas way meet.

The grieving father, who has viewed the footage anterior to it being shown during Anthony's execution trial, told Fox News Digital helium believes the video should beryllium released publically due to the fact that it would enactment to remainder lingering questions astir what happened beneath a Memorial High School squad structure connected April 2, 2025.

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"Yes, I've seen the video. I've seen the video a agelong clip ago," Metcalf told Fox News Digital.

"The video intelligibly shows the speech lasted little than 10 seconds. That's it," helium said. "There was nary four-on-one."

Metcalf said helium would invited the nationalist merchandise of the footage.

"To beryllium honest, I'd emotion for it to beryllium enactment out," helium said. "So I could go, 'Look, if you weren't successful the courtroom, oregon if you don't know, here's the video.'"

According to Metcalf, the footage straight contradicts claims that Anthony was jumped, surrounded oregon attacked by aggregate students earlier the stabbing.

"He wasn't jumped. There was nary four-on-one. He wasn't surrounded," Metcalf said. "Look astatine the video. There's a shove and there's a stab and it's implicit and helium runs away. That's it."

Metcalf's comments travel arsenic online statement implicit the lawsuit continues to intensify, fueling harassment and threats directed astatine his family. The backlash has unfolded alongside increasing scrutiny of fundraising efforts tied to Anthony and his family.

A precocious launched fundraising run was removed and refunded by the level aft raising hundreds of dollars. Questions person besides persisted astir erstwhile fundraising efforts that generated much than $600,000 for Anthony's household pursuing the fatal stabbing.

Metcalf, who spent overmuch of the past 14 months nether a gag order, said helium watched arsenic others publically discussed the lawsuit portion helium remained mostly incapable to respond.

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"People conscionable continually making up lies and mendacious narratives to acceptable their stories," helium said. "All the race-baiting...they're monetizing it. It's for clicks. They're making money, and that's their objective."

Frustrated by what helium sees arsenic radical profiting from discussions surrounding his son's death, Metcalf added: "You're gonna marque wealth disconnected my dormant son?"

Without straight attacking Anthony's family, Metcalf suggested the nationalist tin gully its ain conclusions.

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"I don't person to talk connected it," helium said. "Their actions volition talk large enough."

"Everyone tin spot however they acted," helium added.

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Despite the hardship, Metcalf said helium remains particularly arrogant of Austin's duplicate member Hunter, who testified during the trial.

Recalling a speech aft Hunter near the witnesser stand, Metcalf said helium realized his lad had grown into a man.

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Austin Metcalf, a inferior astatine Memorial High School successful Frisco, was stabbed successful the thorax astatine a way meet, by Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial High School. (Jeff Metcalf/Unknown)

"When you walked up to that assemblage stand, you were a boy," Metcalf said helium told Hunter. "What I saw erstwhile you walked distant was a man."

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"You stood up, you listened, you communicated. You were calm, cool, collected, and your thoughts were clear."

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"I told him past nighttime it's the proudest I've ever been of you successful my life," Metcalf said portion choking backmost tears.

The grief remains particularly hard arsenic Metcalf watches Austin's member navigate beingness without him.

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Fighting backmost tears, the begetter reflected connected raising the boys together.

"I conscionable can't judge I'm without one," helium said.

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More than a twelvemonth aft Austin's death, Metcalf said the symptom remains greater than thing helium has experienced before.

"Until this, I thought crab was the hardest happening that ever happened," helium said. "Cancer's similar a velocity bump. It's nothing."

Fox News' Brooke Taylor, Tessa Hoyos and Kelsie Cairns contributed to this report.