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.

 

[Rootless Cosmopolitan]

Obviously the kid deserves the death penalty for even bringing a knife to a goddamn track meet, but I'm a little lost. Every article I read says the kid was pushing him (still no reason to stab a kid), but here people are saying that there was no altercation and it was entirely verbal?

There was a link on KF a while ago to some video footage notes. Only verbal altercation/Metcalf maybe approaching him to lead him out of the tent. They were not hitting him or anything. It’s a fucking insane overreaction. People defending it are the same people who defend a pitbull mauling a little girl for sneezing too loudly.

 

[Glowie]

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That grifting money will be used on luxuries, instead of lawyer expenses.

Call me NOSTRADAMUS

 

[Null]

In the criminal one, his firm only does criminal work. He’s actually a rather well known criminal defense attorney in DFW.

I see. I think the @Sarahiscensored lady is actually just wrong then. He probably is filing indigent because his actual financial situation is indigent. Mom has the money and she's paying the attorney fee's but can stop any time, so they might as well put it on record he has shit.

 

[Vapid_Idiot]

I wonder what black reddit thinks of this?

 

[Mettaur]

At the very least this is occurring in Texas where it's unlikely the governor will ever pardon him after he's found guilty. If this occurred in a leftist state I could see the governor push for that for leftist brownie points.

 

[God's strongest milkman]

I posted a Frankly borderline schizophrenic post when this case first happened months ago, ranting about my opinion on the relationship between black parents and their children. I will re-explain.

Every person on this planet has expectations of their children. As most of them base their "retirement years" on this expectation. This is why Asian parents desire their kids success so hard, their children are their retirement plan. Whites do this too although to a lesser degree as especially American white culture has pushed the idea of individual responsibility for ones future security.

Black people also do this but the relationship between black children and black parents are very very different from all other races.

Black conception is the most likely of all conceptions to occur from rape, atleast in America. Roughly Half of all black conceptions end in abortion. It's a coin flip if a black baby is born or killed. Roughly Half of those are fatherless. Another coin flip.

This incurs a special debt to the mother from the black son. She absolutely had no obligation not to kill him, half of all black women he will ever meet would have. She does not expect him to be a doctor, she does not expect him to be a scholar. She expects two things of him, to not be like the man that knocked her up (he will fail) and to share in the bounty if he ever wins any of the black lotteries. The Black lotteries are as follows.

Sports.
Music. (Rap primarily)
Professional crime. (Drug dealing, human trafficking, fraud)
Social media (this is new)
Killing a white in a public manner which gains publicity
Or being killed by a white in a public manner which gains publicity.

This list and these descriptions are only accurate for "hood moms" and their children. The socially, culturally and ethnically black. The college educated blacktivist is a different breed and views her own progenitor the hood black as a sort of noble savage which she is related to.

The black mother made a bet when she learned she was pregnant. All black women who conceive approach the cosmic roulette wheel and make a bet. On red, the child is more trouble than it will be worth and won't win a black lottery, or on black and the child will win the black lottery and therefore be worth it.

Roughly 50/50 odds that a woman will make either choice. Fairly reasonable for a roulette table, their favorite game.

Every existing black mother today put their money on black. Karmelo Anthony's mother put her money on black. And she won!

George Floyd's family won, every NBA player families won, every rapper families won, the skittles Nigger George Zimmerman killed families won.

The Black child is a lottery ticket, that is what he is, he is not a gift from God, he is not a blessing, he is not a treasure brought by the storks. He's a Powerball ticket.

The Asian woman gets her reward for motherhood when she sees her grandkids or her doctor son tells her she will be taken care.

The Black woman gets her reward for motherhood when the demon she spawned dies on camera and the NAACP give her a phone call.

Her son is dead, his head perforated, his heart stopped, all his evil deeds caught up to him, he has been caught by the skeletal hand of death and will never be coming home. The black mother drops the phone, her shoulders shaking, emotion overwhelms her, tears rolling down her cheeks.

She can't believe it! She won! She won the lottery! Pure animal joy rocks her body. Her nails will be done, her shitty beater car? Replaced with a Cadillac, her section 8 housing will soon be vacated and she will move to the type of house you see in the movies. The white movies.

The mother is always the biggest fish to feed in the cloud of chum dumped into the waters, but there will be others. Aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters, most of the time the father magically appears for the first time in a long time all feeding in the cloud scooping up every dollar they can.

When you crack the skull of a black son as a white man on camera, you break open a pinata, and many blacks hands strike our desperate for any candy they can get a hold of.

Karmelo Anthony's family has found a relatively new lottery of one of their sons killing a white person. Although it seems the feeding frenzy was too quick for the son himself to get any when he needs it most. They beg for new chum, hungry once again.

There is no bipedal creature on this earth less loved than a black child. There is no existence more tragic. He will either be born a typical example of his "people" or he will be born in an even worse state, one of comprehension. Where he is forced to understand his role as a lottery ticket.

The vaginas of black women are objects of occult use, they are unironically black magic. For they cause only harm, the black vagina is a portal to hell in all but official classification. It's job is to spit out demons and when the owner of the portal makes this decision to fulfill its purpose, she makes a devils deal, bet on black or bet on red.

But like all lottery winners the boons of winning don't last forever and the family will end up right back where they started or worse.

Karmelo Anthony's family has already reached this time in the life of every lottery winner and now karmelo himself, the ticket in the flesh won't be able to benefit. He will go to jail. His mother will try to squeeze as much blood from him as she can. She will bring the empty bucket back to her killer son and try and milk and milk until his nipples are chafed and he is dry. Then she will stop visiting and wait for a new ticket.

Its just nature.

 

[LeChampion1992]

That was essentially what the first lawyers were, and it was patently obvious when they immediately made it about race.


Yeah idk what on earth they’re going on about with that, Frisco/Plano are the least ghetto DFW suburbs I can think of, outside of maybe highland park and university park if you want to count them as suburbs.

The Dallas ghetto is South Dallas, like Oaklawn.

Oaklawn isn't the ghetto lol Oaklawn is the heart of the gayborhood.
The ghetto is basically pleasant grove, South Dallas and parts of Oak cliff, a few blocks in west Dallas and 5 points near park lane.
Also Harry Hines Blvd is basically where homeless junkies get their fix and girls walk the street to find a dude to suck off for $30.

 

[Tennessee Trash]

FUCKING CLASSIC

Black people are just so fucking funny. Imagine if Black Americans had their own country and we could just watch them from afar instead of having to be in the middle of all of their bullshit. We need to ship them all to Mississippi and then treat it like an open air wildlife preserve we can record documentaries in.

Behold the 51st state: New Wakanda
Much of it is already majority black so it would be an easy transition. They can build their own utopia free of racism. Bonus: The states that lose territory would improve by every metric. The remainder of MS and AL can split into new states too. It actually makes sense because the coastal regions are distinct culturally in some ways
White and black supremacists love it because the blacks get their own space away from the white man. I don't want to give up the coastal regions like Mobile that should belong there because there are surrounding nice areas that would get destroyed. Also don't know how I could justify expanding it all the way to Atlanta even though it clearly belongs.

 

[Rimanah]

Oaklawn isn't the ghetto lol Oaklawn is the heart of the gayborhood.
The ghetto is basically pleasant grove, South Dallas and parts of Oak cliff, a few blocks in west Dallas and 5 points near park lane.
Also Harry Hines Blvd is basically where homeless junkies get their fix and girls walk the street to find a dude to suck off for $30.

Shit you’re right, got my oaks mixed up like a fucking retard.

I see. I think the @Sarahiscensored lady is actually just wrong then. He probably is filing indigent because his actual financial situation is indigent. Mom has the money and she's paying the attorney fee's but can stop any time, so they might as well put it on record he has shit.

Yeah, Anthony himself is almost certainly legally indigent and that’s all it is.

As an aside, Mike Howard has an interesting view on criminal defense, that leans really hard into reasonable doubt and the legal technicalities about it. To the point of harming his persuasiveness.
If this goes to trial I fully expect he’ll try to argue multiple contradictory theories of the case (e.g. it was self defense but also Anthony dindu nuffin) because he’s done it before.
If he does, it may be very lol worthy.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Let's hope it's not a jeet infestation situation

Unfortunately, there may already be one. A lot of companies have moved operations in the Dallas suburbs, including Frisco. I get a lot of job notices for positions there for IT and software development jobs, and both the recruiters and interviewers have always been jeets.

 

[OutInTheRain]

In the criminal one, his firm only does criminal work. He’s actually a rather well known criminal defense attorney in DFW.

It can be a ploy for if he loses and they sue the family. If it is accepted, it becomes a matter of record that the Anthony family is poor, then the attorney can say he represented them Pro Bono. If it's just rubber stamped it will go through. If it's scrutinized it might not. How many can go in front of a judge and say hand over heart, that a teen who's legal guardians raised hundreds of thousands in a highly publicized campaign are behaving reasonably by not paying for legal counsel.

TLDR: sneaky lawyer tricks.

 

[netorare]

i mean kind of based? parents know he is a lost cause might aswell use the money for some nice cars and a house for the rest of the family. or is it wrong to throw your son under the bus like that? who know.

 

[LeChampion1992]

Shit you’re right, got my oaks mixed up like a fucking retard.


Yeah, Anthony himself is almost certainly legally indigent and that’s all it is.

As an aside, Mike Howard has an interesting view on criminal defense, that leans really hard into reasonable doubt and the legal technicalities about it. To the point of harming his persuasiveness.
If this goes to trial I fully expect he’ll try to argue multiple contradictory theories of the case (e.g. it was self defense but also Anthony dindu nuffin) because he’s done it before.
If he does, it may be very lol worthy.

Even Oak cliff isn't even that ghetto only a few blocks is maybe ghetto per say but it's genuinely safer in Oak cliff than it is in let's say much of north Dallas now.

 

[Djinni Djohn]

I wonder what black reddit thinks of this?

I can infer that the black imagination stirs and becomes a creative flux so powerful that entire mythologies will be invented and cities will be powered for days straight, but this expansive, immense output of energy is entirely contingent on the basis that the highly productive coonceptions be motivated by the desire to avoid consequences. With this taking place on Reddit, it'll be even more powerful, yet also unstable, as the coincidence of a Redditor being black transforms them into the dreaded Dire Ebonoid, who possesses chromosomes and dispenses syllables both high in count, so long as Hennessy remains in his fount. Logical fallacies fly like the wind and words too expensive for your paycheck will be invented ad-hoc just to bend reality into a scenario in which Karmelo Anthony, simultaneously the strongest BBC hood warrior of his generation, the target of Yakub's spite and envy, and the incredibly innocent and helpless permanent 8 year old "CHYLE" turning his life around, manages to fight off his assailants and shank the "YT" man in a heroic moment, forcing one of the caucasoids to finally be held accountable for his actions, yet somehow did nothing at all, not even anything wrong, despite the fact that the very halls of the ghettoest ghetto have already recorded his trimuph.


How hard will the courts acknowledge the fact that Anthony admitted to killing Metcalf, with the only contrary detail being "But only in self defense"? How hard will he get fucked over by this?

i mean kind of based? parents know he is a lost cause might aswell use the money for some nice cars and a house for the rest of the family. or is it wrong to throw your son under the bus like that? who know.

Not at all, since it means that they're being rewarded for being shitty parents.

 

[Mushroom King]

I see a troublesome trend trying to emerge. 'Kill a white person and crowdfund 500k!' I bet we see another one very soon, it's very nigger behavior to happily betray a family member for 500k. All they have to do is rile up 60 IQ DeShawntis with racism and set him loose with a knife.

Concerning!

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

A bunch of rubes got scammed out of their money and I get to laugh.

 

[Andre Richardson]

I wonder what black reddit thinks of this?

Probably coping and seething like the apes they are.

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

Once again everyone was right when they called out the Nigglet family.

 

[Room Temp Shrimp]

I see a troublesome trend trying to emerge. 'Kill a white person and crowdfund 500k

This mixed with what @God's strongest milkman was saying paints a very bleak future possibly in the works. The lottery ticket can now kill a white to cash out on it. Therefore, more incentive to raise black children to hate whitey. I doubt it will be realized but proof is in the pudding.

Nigga we finna boutta bet on black!

 

[GarthVader]

Behold the 51st state: New Wakanda
Much of it is already majority black so it would be an easy transition. They can build their own utopia free of racism. Bonus: The states that lose territory would improve by every metric. The remainder of MS and AL can split into new states too. It actually makes sense because the coastal regions are distinct culturally in some ways
White and black supremacists love it because the blacks get their own space away from the white man. I don't want to give up the coastal regions like Mobile that should belong there because there are surrounding nice areas that would get destroyed. Also don't know how I could justify expanding it all the way to Atlanta even though it clearly belongs. View attachment 7561641

I think Arkansas would definitely like having that bit of tumor removed.