JUST IN: Judge Reduces Teen Track Star Killer Karmelo Anthony’s Bond to $250,000, Places Him on House Arrest

Gateway Pundit ^ | April 14, 2025 | Staff

[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.”

[Theodore R.]

So many Republican primary voters in TX and presumably elsewhere don’t understand republicanism.

[DoughtyOne]

Wouldn’t surprise me if they find a way around that.

Nothing but sympathy for the defendants, and a thick skin
shown to the relatives of the deceased.

[Ann Archy]

I BET I can guess the COLOR OF THE DUMBASS JUDGE! DISGUSTING! ONLY COLOR MATTERS. DEI JUDGE????

[nopardons]

Yes, the Bond was reduced and it was paid and he is home on HOUSE ARREST; however, this is FRISCO, Texas and I doubt that he will go free. He MURDERED someone and ADMITTED IT; which IS on the police record. And supposedly, there IS video, as well as many REAL witnesses; as opposed to ALL of the CRAP being posted on line and on Tik Tok, by people who weren’t there/have NEVER even been in Texas; let alone in Frisco!

[Glad2bnuts]

Show me his real BC, there is a chance he is older than 17.

[cp124]

Our entire Judicial System is garbage.

[af_vet_1981]

I like Texas but sometimes it makes you wonder.

In 2021, 40.2% of the population was Hispanic and Latino American of any race, 39.3% non-Hispanic white, 11.6% Black or African American, 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.1% Asian, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 0.4% some other race, and 3.1% two or more races.

[ABStrauss]

Yikes!