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(NewsNation) — A typical for the household of Texas teen Karmelo Anthony, who is accused of fatally stabbing different teen astatine a precocious schoolhouse way meet, said they judge their lad is innocent.
“I judge the Anthony household feels that, yes, Karmelo Anthony is guiltless of this, and they are going to enactment Karmelo Anthony successful this full process and get him prepared,” Dominique Alexander told NewsNation connected Wednesday.
He said the household volition basal down Anthony arsenic helium plans to contiguous a self-defense claim.
Anthony has been charged successful the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. The 2 allegedly were progressive successful an altercation, which ended successful Metcalf's death. Metcalf is said to person died successful his duplicate brother’s arms.
Anthony admitted to the transgression and asked officers if his actions could beryllium considered self-defense, authorities said.
He was released from jailhouse and placed connected location apprehension soon aft his enslaved was reduced from $1 cardinal to $250,000.
Texas instrumentality prohibits weapons connected schoolhouse grounds, but Alexander said the crushed down Anthony's possession of a weapon would beryllium “answered successful a tribunal of instrumentality and jury.”
Karmelo Anthony household raises $500K successful donations
The Anthony household has raised much than $500,000 connected a fundraising website, and Alexander said the wealth was being utilized “properly.”
“This money was created to enactment their family, to assistance them relocate, to wage for ineligible expenses, and I could archer you those funds are being utilized properly,” helium said.
Alexander did not picture the Metcalf household arsenic victims, though helium said that “any nonaccomplishment of beingness is simply a tragedy. Any kid that loses his beingness is simply a tragedy, nary substance the circumstance.”
When asked if Anthony feels remorse for the incident, Alexander said helium had “never asked him that question.”
Comparing Karmelo Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse
Alexander besides held steadfast to comments helium made comparing Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of sidesplitting 2 men and injuring different astatine a Black Lives Matter protestation aft helium pleaded self-defense.
“Whatever uproar it wants to create, Kyle Rittenhouse displayed, this was self-defense. And each my correlation is, is that if Kyle Rittenhouse said self-defense, Karmelo Anthony has the rights to self-defense,” Alexander said.
Austin Metcalf's begetter thrown retired of Anthony household property event
Anthony’s household organized a quality league past month, and Austin Metcalf's father, Jeffrey Metcalf, showed up “uninvited,” according to Alexander.
“We asked him, we tried to ... literally, this property league was delayed an full hour. We asked him to permission respective times,” helium said.
Jeffrey Metcalf had said helium attended the quality league to commune with the family, which Alexander disputed. He said helium did not explicit immoderate specified intent to unit who were present.
Alexander clarified a erstwhile remark that Jeffrey Metcalf “disrespected the dignity of his son” by attending the lawsuit by saying that his “emotions were precocious astatine that time.”
Jeffrey Metcalf was yet escorted retired by police. He declined to sermon specifics oregon respond to Alexander’s claims, but told NewsNation, “Truth volition travel out, and justness volition prevail.”
