GiveSendGo co-founder not proud to host fundraiser for alleged track meet murder suspect, says some donors are wrong

More than $514,000 has been donated to the “Help Karmelo Anthony Official Fund” on the crowd-sourcing site GiveSendGo.com.This half-million-dollar sum is the result of an alleged murder that occurred at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, on April 2. The victim was 17-year-old Austin Metcalf of Memorial High School, who died in a deadly stabbing.The suspect, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of Centennial High School, was just released from jail on bond after lawyers reduced his bail from $1 million. Anthony has told police that he “did it” – meaning the murder – but has claimed it was in self-defense.He has been charged with first-degree murder.Now, GiveSendGo is leading in online fundraising for the Anthony’s family legal expenses.Other major crowd-sourcing platforms, including GoFundMe and Kickstarter, have not platformed a campaign for Anthony on their sites.But GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells and his leadership team are featuring Anthony’s campaign. “How proud am I of this campaign? I don’t, I wouldn’t say I’m proud at all,” Wells told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. “I have no pride in having this being on GiveSendGo.

I just have appreciation for what GiveSendGo is doing in the midst of these tragic moments, which is standing on principle, which is loving people even in the midst of very hard and dark places.” Wells admitted that there have been other campaigns on his site, like a foster home for boys fundraiser, that he is proud of.But Anthony’s fundraiser is not one of those. Wells claimed his company has only ever removed campaigns for causes deemed “illegal,” or raising money under false pretenses.He says he’s taken down a fundraiser for fraudulently raising money for travel expenses while the organizer intended to use the money to buy a gun. Wells declined to directly say whether there were any conversations about removing the campaign, but insists that “pretty much” everyone involved in leadershi...