Texas adolescent accused of fatally stabbing a high school soccer star at a track meeting allegedly lives in a $ 900K house within a luxurious closed community, despite requesting that a judge reduces his $ 1 million bonus due to financial difficulties.
Karmelo Anthony, 17, is locked up with his family in the expensive home within the closed community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas, after he was released from jail on Monday with a reduced bond of $ 250,000 for allegedly killing before this Metcalalin Metcalin.
The house, where it is estimated that the rent is $ 3,500 per months, had a white suburban, a black acura and a third sedan on the entrance road on Tuesday, according to the exit.
A neighbor said the family had just bought a new trip.
“He has a new car,” the resident told The Outlet. “If you look at the tuition, it has a paper label and says it expires on June 4.”
Richwoods is a mile away from Centennial High School, where Anthony went to school and directed the track.
The residents of the closed community allegedly did not know that the family lived in the house until Anthony was released on Monday and expressed their concerns about having the murderer accused in their exclusive neighborhood.
“It’s not good. It’s not good. I don’t think I should be out,” said the anonymous mother of the neighborhood to the Daily Mail.
Another neighbor also told the departure that Anthony’s family is “not poor” if they live in the closed community.
“They are not poor people. That’s safe,” he said.
The house has also flooded with deliveries, supposedly for Anthony, and Amazon trucks were seen making multiple falls at home, The Outlet reported.
“The best thing they can do is move,” said another neighbor. “I think that would be the best for everyone.”
It is not clear how long Anthony and his family have lived at home.
Anthony had been locked in the Collin County prison and accused of first -degree murder for allegedly stabbing Metcalf, also 17 years old, in the heart a fight on a seat at a track meeting on April 2.
Anthony supposedly told the Police that he was acting in self -defense, and his family said that “the narrative that is spreading is false, unfair and harmful” in a collection of funds from Gagoendgo.com for its legal fees: what has increased more than Thansday.
Initially, he was being a hero with a bail of $ 1 million until a Collin County judge cut the $ 250K and ruled that he could wait for the trial at home with the ankle monitor under the 24 -hour supervision of his parents or an “adult consigned.”
The reduced bonus occurred a week after Anthony’s lawyer said he would ask the court to reduce the bail of $ 1 million “excessive” and ask the local district prosecutor to make “a better determination” of the charges.
The fund, created to help the adolescent’s family with legal fees, is also used to move and hire additional security for him and his family amid the reaction about Metcalf’s death, said his defense lawyer, Mike Howard.
“Since Karmelo has no previous criminal record and since the young man has no leg in any kind or problem before, $ 1 million are not necessary,” Howard said.
“This family needs to be able to survive,” he continued. “There is a lot of pressure. I think that at this time, living in a closed community, given everything, the safety of their smallest children is very justified. Safety details and criminal defense are not cheap.”
However, Collin County Assistant Bill Wirsky questioned the family and asked why they had used the money raised to pay Anthony’s bond.
“It is not as simple as giving a phone call to access it,” Anthony’s parents said, as reported by Fox 4.
They explained that obtaining the money was difficult, and a part had gone to Anthony’s legal defense.