MCKINNEY, Texas – As convicted killer Karmelo Anthony asks for a taxpayer-funded lawyer for his appeal, claiming he is “penniless,” newly examined public records indicate that his parents activated a Texas business entity less than a month after the deadly stabbing of Austin Metcalf.
The records do not show that money from any fundraising efforts was funneled through the company. Anthony’s parents have not been accused of wrongdoing or charged with any offense.
Anthony, 19, was sentenced earlier this month to 35 years in prison after a Collin County jury found him guilty of murder in the April 2, 2025, stabbing death of Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco.
Shortly after sentencing, Anthony submitted paperwork requesting a court-appointed attorney for his appeal. In that filing, he said he was a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal.”
Karmelo Anthony is shown after being transferred into the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and taken to the Pack Unit near Navasota, Texas. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
