Karmelo Anthony indicted in Frisco track meet stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, officials say - How long before Austins father calls for his sons murderer to be pardoned?

Karmelo Anthony indicted in Frisco track meet stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, officials say​

Karmelo Anthony, the Frisco teen charged with murder for an April track meet stabbing, was indicted on a murder charge.

Credit: WFAA

Austin Metcalf (left) was fatally stabbed at a Frisco track meet, and Karmelo Anthony (right) was charged with murder in connection with the case.

Author: Rachel Behrndt

Published: 1:59 PM CDT June 24, 2025

Updated: 2:47 PM CDT June 24, 2025



FRISCO, Texas — Karmelo Anthony, the teen accused of fatally stabbing another teen, Austin Metcalf, at a Frisco track meet, has been indicted on a murder charge, officials said.

A grand jury indicted Anthony on Tuesday, according to the Collin County District Attorney's Office. A murder charge is punishable by 5-99 years or life in prison.



Anthony, a 17-year-old former student of Frisco Centennial High School, was arrested and charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of Frisco Memorial High School student athlete Austin Metcalf in April at a track meet in Frisco ISD's Kuykendall Stadium. He was released from jail later that month after his bond was reduced from $1 million to $250,000.

Anthony has claimed self defense in the case, which garnered national attention, heightening racial tensions and raising security concerns among everyone connected to the case, including both families and Judge Angela Tucker, who is presiding over the case.

"We know this case has struck a deep nerve — here in Collin County and beyond," Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said in a statement Tuesday. "That’s understandable. When something like this happens at a school event, it shakes people to the core. But the justice system works best when it moves with steadiness and with principle. That’s what we’re committed to. And that’s exactly what this case deserves."

Anthony's attorney, Mike Howard, called Tuesday's indictment "an expected and routine step in the legal process."

"Karmelo and his family are confident in the justice system and the people of Collin County to be fair and impartial," Howard said. "Of course, Karmelo looks forward to his day in court. It's only in a trial that a jury will hear the full story, one that includes critical facts and context that the grand jury simply didn't get to hear."

Howard again raised Anthony's self defense claim in his statement Tuesday.

"We expect that when the full story is heard, the prosecution will not be able to rule out the reasonable doubt that Karmelo Anthony may have acted in self defense," Howard said. "Self defense is a fundamental right guaranteed every American."



Metcalf's father, Jeff Metcalf, told WFAA in a statement that he's "pleased that we are moving forward."

“With the first degree murder indictment, it now goes into the court system," Jeff Metcalf said. "I fully believe that justice will be served for Austin Metcalf. I look forward to the forthcoming trial. But it will never bring my son back.“

Under his bond conditions, Anthony is required to wear an ankle monitor and ask permission to leave his home. If Anthony violates any conditions of his bond, he will have to return to jail. He graduated and received his high school diploma in May, but did not attend the ceremony, WFAA previously reported.

Anthony allegedly confessed to the stabbing immediately after he was arrested, claiming he was defending himself from Metcalf, officials said, as WFAA previously reported.

A witness reportedly told police that Metcalf told Anthony he had to move out from under the Memorial High School tent. Anthony responded by opening his bag and reaching inside, WFAA previously reported.

"Touch me and see what happens," Anthony told Metcalf, according to a witness.

Metcalf reportedly then touched Anthony, the witness told a responding officer, and Anthony told Metcalf to punch him and see what would happen. Soon afterward, the witness said, Metcalf reportedly grabbed Anthony to tell him to move. At which point, the affidavit continues, Anthony reportedly pulled out what the witness recalled as a black knife and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest before running away.

The deep tension sparked by the incident has raised concerns that the case may be tried outside of Collin County. Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis told WFAA that the judge will make that decision at the time of trial.

 

[TowinKarz]

You certainly can. Fairness isn't a result of investing lots of time in procedures. Fairness is getting the correct result, and everyone knows what it is here.

Within the context of law and order? Fairness IS the process... not raw expediency. And there is no preordained "right" result.

 

[Jace on ice]

This is going to be a classic nigger self own. They had 500k, enough money to hire the absolute best lawyers or lawyers possible but they spent it all on yeezys and a rented particle board mcmansion.

Now they'll go into a first degree murderer trial with a PD who doesn't care and probably won't try very hard since he/she knows the case is already lost.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

This is going to be a classic nigger self own. They had 500k, enough money to hire the absolute best lawyers or lawyers possible but they spent it all on yeezys and a rented particle board mcmansion.

Now they'll go into a first degree murderer trial with a PD who doesn't care and probably won't try very hard since he/she knows the case is already lost.

Don't know what you're talking about, honestly. This is the lawyer they hired after the first one bailed. He's been handling the case since before Karmelo's bond reduction.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Karmelo was 17 when it happened, so that's out the window.

We can't kill him, he was 17 years, 364 days and 23 hours old when he comitted his racially motivated murder in the comission of a robbery you sick fuck.

 

[The Ancestor]

lawyer they hired after the first one bailed

This part’s new to me, was there a specific reason?

 

[Snekposter]

Bringing hidden knife and saying "touch me see what happens" should be more than enough in a sane society. So basically it's 100% depending on jurors not being niggerloving faggots

Even so there's an extra layer of procedural matters that go along with it. There's a strong burden of proof for accusations of premeditated murder for what I should hope are obvious reasons, and all that needs to be properly accounted for.

This part’s new to me, was there a specific reason?

Karmelo's parents probably told him their son stabbed someone to death in self-defense during a fight as opposed to what actually went down.

 

[Uzumaki]

Is this guy actually retarded enough to think his self defense bs excuse is gonna fly?

No, but he’s paid to pretend

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

While this was obviously premeditated murder, unless they got Karmelo dead to rights, I think that pushing for first degree murder charges was a bad idea. I think second degree charges would have been much easier to make stick, given that everyone knows for a fact the murder happened, it had dozens of witnesses, and there's video as well. But none of those can really prove that this noglet was planning to commit murder, only that he did commit a murder. Ethically, the nigger should be hung from the nearest tree branch, but legally I don't think this was a good move unless there's some evidence that makes it a slam dunk that I do not know about.

Were not the rural state anymore texas is basically California minus the bay area, add cowboy hats, and more guns.
Sadly any action we could and want to commit would get you tucked six ways from Sunday because the media will have a field day.

That's because Texas did what California did and eagerly replaced its native white population with a brown foreign population; you're less than 40% white and over a third of your population doesn't speak English. You imported the third world, now you are becoming the third world, complete with their pro criminal "kulcha" that eagerly punishes the righteous to protect the evil.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

This part’s new to me, was there a specific reason?

I couldn't find a reason. Mr. Stabby was originally represented by Billy Clark and Kim Cole, who later announced via the Next Generation Action Network that they're handing things over to Mike Howard.

The Next Generation Action Network is some gay BLM-obsessed non-profit who helped the killer's family with the crowdfunding campaign. They're also the ones who deployed that unhinged turbo nigger who spoke at their press conference.

 

[Smar Mijou]

Haven't really been keeping up on this clusterfuck since shortly after the stabbing and ensuing chimpout from the defense Lolyer and Karmelo both. Last I heard was there was supposedly a video captured from a security camera that caught the stabbing. Has that been released yet?

 

[Marvin]

Just like with South African apartheid, it was better for the niggers too. Blacks are so profoundly dysfunctional that they're genuinely better off as legally-codified second class citizens.

They're not naturally dysfunctional. In the past, blacks in the US managed to develop social structures and culture on their own.

Gibs, victimhood and the weird ant colony big city ghettos fucks them up.

Talk to rural southern blacks. Or blacks who've served in the military. They're far, far more functional people.

Thank LBJ. "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years."

 

[Dan Abrams]

if i had to guess the moon cricket's old attorneys left for ethical reasons such as he said yeah I did dat fo no reason but you need to tell them it was self defense. So they found this slimy race baiting lawyer willing to lie.

 

[X Prime]

Within the context of law and order? Fairness IS the process...

This is a very questionable statement when you consider how often "the process" has been weaponized as a tool to get a result via financial pressure.

 

[The Ancestor]

Haven't really been keeping up on this clusterfuck since shortly after the stabbing and ensuing chimpout from the defense Lolyer and Karmelo both. Last I heard was there was supposedly a video captured from a security camera that caught the stabbing. Has that been released yet?

It hasn’t and I feel like it won’t until trial, but reporters have gotten access and they said it doesn’t show Metcalf instigating anything

 

[X Prime]

Or blacks who've served in the military. They're far, far more functional people.

Tell that to the people in Okinawa.

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

They're not naturally dysfunctional. In the past, blacks in the US managed to develop social structures and culture on their own.

Gibs, victimhood and the weird ant colony big city ghettos fucks them up.

Talk to rural southern blacks. Or blacks who've served in the military. They're far, far more functional people.

Thank LBJ. "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years."

So what's the excuse for niggers being a total disaster in the entirety of Africa, as well as everywhere else they infest? Is that whitey's fault too? Clearly blacks are peaceful jungle apes that would have built Space Wakanda by now if wypipoz weren't 'pressun dem KANGZ all da time!

 

[Marvin]

So what's the excuse for niggers being a total disaster in the entirety of Africa, as well as everywhere else they infest? Is that whitey's fault too? Clearly blacks are peaceful jungle apes that would have built Space Wakanda by now if wypipoz weren't 'pressun dem KANGZ all da time!

I mean, it's not the entirety of Africa. Nigeria and Kenya are fine. And north African countries are shitholes too and they're run by Arabs.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Both things can be true, without Whitey blacks end up just killing and raping each other and destroying their societies but also black people in America who aren't dependent on gibs can do very well and be normal

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

I mean, it's not the entirety of Africa. Nigeria and Kenya are fine. And north African countries are shitholes too and they're run by Arabs.

Perpetual famine, constant separatist and bandit warfare, little social order, and borderline nonexistent infrastructure. Yeah, doing just fine! Thanks for proving my point lmfao.

 

[SilkGnut]

Even so, the rule of law is what separates man from nigger.

You think that more laws have made the world less friendly to men who do not act like niggers?

This seems to be a retarded idealism that has no reflection in reality.