By Dylan Kresak
A woman claims that a mob of female Karmelo Anthony supporters jumped her in an unprovoked attack at a Texas bar Sunday.
Sammie Lee says she was leaving Whiskey J’s bar in Longview, Texas when she was attacked by a group of girls she had never met before, Fox News reported. Lee alleged that the crowd was angered by the verdict against Karmelo Anthony — the 19-year-old who was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf in a fatal stabbing at a high school track meet.
“While getting jumped they [were] yelling out ‘Free Karmelo’ — saying they [were] going to target the smallest white girl they could find,” Lee wrote in a Sunday Facebook post in which she included pictures of her face with visible blood and a black eye.
“I never said a word to these girls, never looked at them, and don’t know them at all,” Lee’s post added. “[B]lack eye, and staples in my HEAD! [I] was LEAKING blood on the back of [sic] head & my face. [T]otally caught me off guard. THIS SHIT IS NOT OKAY!!!!!” (RELATED: ‘Again, Racism’: Jasmine Crockett Minimizes Karmelo Anthony Plunging Knife Into Austin Metcalf’s Heart)
Longview Police Department holds press conference to address the brutal assault on Sammie Lee by alleged Karmelo Anthony supporters. pic.twitter.com/m1f9BHiW6h
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One woman, Ciarrianne Fuller, was arrested in connection with the alleged assault, according to CBS19. Fuller is charged with assault causing bodily injury and has been placed in Gregg County Jail on a $20,000 bond as the investigation continues.
Earlier, a black livestreamer attacked a random white man while invoking Karmelo Anthony’s name.
Anthony’s new legal team of six attorneys announced Monday they were taking charge of the case, before the anticipated appeal of his murder conviction.
“It was no innocent ’til proven guilty. He was already guilty,” Anthony’s parents claimed in a CBS interview following the verdict.
Anthony was asked to leave the opposing track team’s tent 15 times. But Anthony replied “Touch me and find out” and argued with Austin Metcalf for about two minutes. A witness explained that Metcalf provided Anthony a “minor pushing” and at that moment Anthony stabbed him.
Another witness testified that Anthony said “I’m not leaving, fuck you all.” Anthony then reached into his backpack as he called the crowd of students around him “a bunch of pussies.”
Karmelo Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the heart. The two had a brief dispute, with Metcalf asking Anthony, who was from a different school, to leave his team’s tent. Anthony reached into his backpack and pulled out a knife before fatally stabbing Metcalf, who died in his twin brother’s arms. Multiple witnesses in the tent where Metcalf was stabbed testified for the prosecution that Anthony refused repeated requests to leave and escalated the dispute. “Karmelo put his hand in the bag and said five times, ‘Touch me and see what happens.’ Austin said he’s not going to touch this guy. He was calm,” one witness recounted.
Some prospective black jurors indicated that they wouldn’t be willing to convict Karmelo Anthony even if he were guilty. “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail,” one said. Prospective black jurors were not chosen for the jury “because they admitted during voir dire that they didn’t think they could send a black man to jail. They admitted that they could not follow the evidence if it pointed to a guilty verdict.”
A black crowd gathered outside the Collin County Courthouse to support Karmelo Anthony. There was a “tense scene in and around Collin County Courthouse. More than 2 dozen deputies outside the courtroom alone. Outside a crowd” chanted “‘Free Karmelo.’”
