Posted on 04/14/2025 12:03:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
A judge on Monday reduced teen track star killer Karmelo Anthony’s bond from $1 million to $250,000 and placed him on house arrest.
As TGP previously reported, 16-year-old track and football star Austin Metcalf was brutally stabbed to death earlier this month during a championship track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
Metcalf, a junior at Frisco Memorial High School, was attacked in broad daylight — at a school-sanctioned event meant to showcase hard work, discipline, and sportsmanship.
The suspect, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of rival school Frisco Centennial, was charged with first-degree murder.
The Karmelo Anthony family attorney asked the judge to put the teen killer on an ankle monitor and reduce his bond so he can “be with his family.”
The defense attorney argued that Karmelo Anthony has no prior arrests and should be released from prison.
Prosecutors argued that Karmelo Anthony was involved in an altercation at school in February, but it did not involve law enforcement, according to Fox 4 News.
In asking for the bond reduction, the defense attorneys said Anthony’s family is having trouble accessing the more than $400,000 raised for the teen killer. The judge sided with the defense and reduced Karmelo Anthony’s bond to $250,000.
Judge Angela Tucker of the 199th Judicial District Court also said Karmelo Anthony would be put on house arrest.
Fox 4 News reported:
Bond Reduced: The judge reduced the teen’s bond to $250,000, and he will be placed on house arrest. He will have to speak to the bailiff every Friday morning and he is not allowed to be on social media.
The Judge: Judge Angela Tucker of the 199th Judicial District Court says she learned of this case assignment last Monday, and the cases are assigned at random. She will only preside over the bond reduction hearing. There will be another random selection for the judge assigned to the trial.
Judge Tucker said they’ve never had the security issues they’ve faced with this case.
She also said during the hearing that this is a bond hearing and not a trial, and at the bond hearing you don’t get everything.
The purpose of a bond is to ensure the defendant will return to court and to ensure the safety of the community, she said.
“I don’t take that lightly at all. I take those things very seriously.”
Do murders get out on house arrest?
Any future bloodshed by this man will be on you, Judge.
I don’t recall Rush Limbaugh ever calling anyone a “negress.”
Judges succumbs to leftists and lets the murderer have it easy.
I feel badly for the family most of all
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it works for the left on many levels.
first , in angers anyone not on the left .
then it encourages copy cats
they can do a victim of racism tour at left events and tv news and late night to further the self defense narrative and acquit him in the court of ( left ) public opinion
if it triggers someone to harass or attack him they can scream bloody victim hood
if it doesnt trigger that, they can hoax or false flag it..
( that last one is the reason i suspect and am watching for ) just
watch
hes the new george floyd
Think you’re mad now wait until he gets a hung jury because of the “diverse” jury.
Meanwhile, there is no parole or bond for the family of the murdered victim. He’s still dead and they will be without him for the rest of their lives.
Disappointing post.
I bet he gets his charges dropped or reduced to a misdemeanor with sentencing to a few hours of “community service.” How can you punish a kid who was just operating within his own cultural norms? That would be racism or, at best, denigrating a culture that must be deemed equal to all other cultures including civilized ones.
Is it even a crime when a black kid kills a white? I recall seeing a group of “teens” who beat a white kid to death and they got nothing.
You don’t bring a knife to a high school track meet unless you PLAN ON USING IT....................
This is really outrageous!
If the roles were reversed, do you think he would be under house arrest?
Especially a large kitchen knife in a bag. It appears obvious that he went to the other team’s tent intent on cutting somebody.
“Do murders get out on house arrest?”
Yes my best friend is a felony level defense attorney who does mostly murder, capital murder, rico and cartel crimes. I can tell you for murder this is not capital murder since he didn’t meet the criteria of 19.03 this is at most murder Texas doesn’t do degrees of murder. We have negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter, murder and capital murder. $1 million is a capital murder level bond, $500 is a murder bond with prior felony level convictions. $250,000 is appropriate for a murder or voluntary manslaughter on a first offence.
Bond is to ensure the accused shows up for.trial it is not per the Supreme Court to be used to punish people. You can get a no bond holding order for a real and present danger to society. That’s hard to get on a first offender. This will 100% be argued as a passion crime trying to get the 19.03 down to voluntary manslaughter. However if the knife is over 5.5 inches in length it is then a location restricted knife and 46.02 kicks in where it’s a 3rd degree felony to possess let alone use a knife on school ground OR where school events are taking place. 46.02 triggers 19.31 which makes this murder while in commission of a felony my ups it to felony murder which is between murder and capital murder. You also lose 9.31 self-defense plea entirely and when 46 kicks in.
So summery from a practicing Texas bar licenced felony defence attorney who is sitting next to me at the sports bar as I type this is.
$250,000 is appropriate for a murder in the first offence, house arrest is a kicker and the GPS monitor as well.
The big unknown is the nature of the murder weapon if it’s a locations restricted knife he is getting felony murder and a UCW too.
The witnesses have put on record provocation of the victim by the murderer this also will remove 09.31 and elevate the crime due to intent. You cannot stab someone in the middle of the chest if they just touch you, 09.31 requires proportional response. By stabbing someone in the middle of the chest you intended to cause serous bodily harm and it is not conductive to the continuance of life so intentional death. That ups section 19 from voluntary manslaughter to full murder just on it’s own.
No you cannot claim that you were touched , shoved or even punched and use deadly force 19.32 is clear on when you can and ONLY when you can use deadly force. Getting manhandled is not one of them.
WHAT IS THE BETTING LINE THAT HE WILL OBEY JUDGES RESTRICTIONS???
MY BET IS ZERO...HE WILL NEVER OBEY
Opps 09.32 outlines the only time deadly force can be used in self defense. Not 19.32.
“Do murderers get out on house arrest”
Well its not like killing Whitey for disrespectin on the black man is all that bad. 🙄
Now that he is a “celebrity “ and his family is flush with cash, it would not surprise me if some urban yutes try robbing him and his family .
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