A teen has been discovered responsible of homicide over the fatal stabbing of one other teen at a highschool observe meet final yr.
Karmelo Anthony, 19, was indicted on first-degree homicide within the deadly stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a observe meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025.
Prosecutors referred to as the stabbing “mindless” and “plain and easy homicide,” whereas the protection argued that Anthony acted in self-defense.
The homicide cost carries a sentence of as much as life in jail. Forward of closing arguments on Tuesday, the decide determined that jurors might additionally think about manslaughter, which carries a sentence of as much as 20 years in jail, in response to ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA, which was within the courtroom for the trial.
The jury started deliberating noon Tuesday earlier than reaching a verdict inside three hours, in response to WFAA. The jurors will now decide his sentence, the station reported.
A courtroom sketch, supplied by Pat Lopez reveals Karmelo Anthony, heart, on the protection desk, the jury on the left and the presiding decide on the fitting, June 4, 2026, in McKinney, Texas.
Pat Lopez through AP
The lethal stabbing occurred at a Frisco Unbiased Faculty District stadium on April 2, 2025, throughout a observe and discipline competitors involving a number of colleges within the district.
Police stated Metcalf, an eleventh grader at Frisco Memorial Excessive Faculty, was stabbed throughout an altercation beneath his faculty’s tent within the stadium bleachers. Witnesses stated the 2 acquired into an argument over Anthony, a then-17-year-old scholar at Frisco Centennial Excessive Faculty, being beneath Metcalf’s faculty tent throughout the wet observe meet.
Jurors heard testimony over 4 days. Anthony didn’t take the stand in his personal protection.
Decide John Roach imposed a gag order within the case, proscribing what these concerned can say, and barred any electronics from the courtroom throughout the trial as a result of consideration the case has garnered.
The reserving picture for Karmelo Anthony.
Frisco Police Division
Collin County First Assistant District Legal professional Invoice Wirskye instructed jurors that the stabbing was not self-defense however “unjustified” homicide, in response to WFAA.
In his closing argument on Tuesday, Wirskye claimed that Anthony provoked Metcalf, questioned why the defendant did not stroll away and referred to as the stabbing disproportionate.
“You do not get to satisfy a shove with a stab — particularly if you happen to provoke a shove,” Wirskye instructed jurors, in response to WFAA.
Protection lawyer Mike Howard instructed jurors that Anthony had gone to the Memorial tent to get out of the rain when Metcalf confronted him and instructed him to depart, WFAA reported. Howard stated Anthony “acted in worry and chaos” after Metcalf pushed him, and stabbed the opposite teen in self-defense, in response to WFAA.
Throughout his closing argument on Tuesday, Howard stated Metcalf had “no authorized proper” to make use of pressure on Anthony, WFAA reported. In response to contentions that Anthony might have simply left, the protection lawyer stated, “I’m certain he needs he did,” in response to WFAA.
A number of college students who have been on the observe meet that day testified that they noticed Metcalf push Anthony, who was seated on the bleacher, with some describing it as a two-handed push, like a “lineman transfer,” whereas others stated it was a one-handed “small shove,” WFAA reported.
One witness testified that Anthony was requested to depart the tent about 15 instances, in response to WFAA. Some recalled Anthony saying, “Contact me and see what occurs,” throughout the altercation, which witnesses stated lasted about 4 to 6 minutes, in response to WFAA. One other witness quoted Metcalf as telling Anthony, “I am not going to battle you,” the station reported.
Austin Metcalf in a household supplied picture.
Metcalf Household
Surveillance footage from the observe meet performed in court docket didn’t present the stabbing, and a few of the witnesses have been requested to show the incident, in response to WFAA.
After the stabbing, witnesses stated Anthony jogged away from the tent, and a coach who spoke to him on the observe testified that he stated, “He put his fingers on me. I stabbed him,” in response to WFAA.
A pocket knife used within the stabbing was discovered on the bleachers, police stated. Collin County Medical Examiner Dr. Elizabeth Ventura testified that Metcalf was stabbed on the left aspect of his chest, and the knife perforated his proper ventricle, in response to WFAA.
A number of individuals spoke throughout the trial of the efforts to avoid wasting Metcalf. A soccer coach who was serving to on the observe meet testified that he put strain on the stab wound, and Memorial’s athletic coach stated she did CPR till paramedics arrived, in response to WFAA.
“All people was praying,” Memorial Excessive Faculty head observe coach Robert Starr stated in emotional testimony, in response to WFAA. “I simply knew Austin was gone.”
Metcalf was transported to an space hospital, the place he was finally pronounced useless, police stated.
