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.

 

[wierfrost87]

They already get infinite welfare and EBT, yet they are always still asking for more. They are not logical.

This is an interesting idea: no reparations because we’ve already been paying you all through welfare.

If they claim their poverty is a consequence of systemic systems of systemic racism, then maybe welfare is already correcting for that.

So what if a one-time reparation payment means no more welfare of any kind ever?

I still think people should consider that reparations to them helps us more than them, since they’ll just blow the money on things we already own. But yes I can see the argument of them scamming and scheming and they have an eternally ungrateful culture, so I can see them saying it’s never enough and asking for more.

Historically, there isn’t much of a history for paying reparations beyond cash except for Native Americans. Those reparations MIGHT make sense given that there was a history of us forcibly removing them from land they occupied for our own use (I’m not saying we are all on stolen land, etc.). Blacks don’t have a comparable claim. But also, I don’t know that there’s a history of people being given reparations, asking for more and getting it. Despite what they think, blacks aren’t that special (unless you mean special ed).

I say pay to repatriate as many of them to Liberia as possible so that they are no longer our problem and then give Liberia a bunch of money to keep them

Who says Liberia wants them? Who says they don’t just come right back to America? Are we taking away their citizenship and replacing it with Liberian citizenship?

 

[The best and greatest]

Who says Liberia wants them?

Who said anything about asking permission?

Who says they don’t just come right back to America?

To keep this from happening you make coming back as humiliating as humanly possible.

Put a camera in their faces, make them crawl and beg to be let back in (I still wouldn't)

Are we taking away their citizenship

Yes

and replacing it with Liberian citizenship?

Who cares?

 

[wierfrost87]

To keep this from happening you make coming back as humiliating as humanly possible.

What does humiliating mean to a group of people who are so shamelessly retarded and unaware of it that they’re doing and saying what they’re doing and saying about Karmelo?

Plus they probably go r-r-r-racism!!!! if you even pointed it out.

 

[not william stenchever]

It does you no favors to say all your ethnic group's members can't help but get violent if you use the Pee Wee's Clubhouse secret word on them. Letting insults roll off instead of starting generational blood feuds over them is what's supposed to mark you out as a civilized person/people.

Call me a horse riding neanderthal and my reaction would be "heh, yeah I guess I am." Far more effective to make fun of the Yamnaya culture weaponizing it's teenage males as furry war cults to cause the Indo European expansion.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

cleat sharpeners are a real thing. Theyre a really great timesaving and cost effective measure. I'd highly recommend them to anyone even vaguely interested in track or sports in general. If you can get a really good one it'll last you a lifetime.

 

[ShitLurker]

Once we’ve paid the reparations, we can eternally dismiss any future claims to reparations as “sorry, we already gave you reparations, you don’t get any more.”

First you need to reprogram white people to stop being empathetic and sympathetic to suicidal degrees. Because the retarded brown mongrel is crying, that's just mean and we should help it just one more time.

Till whitey as a whole sees them as subhumans that only deserve the greatest of scorn at best (and ideally you can imagine where I'm going), the problem will never be solved.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

it abolished the blade length limit

not calling bullshit, but do you have a source?
I've seen very mixed answers about if/what the gun restrictions getting overturned affect for knives, so I could use a reputable source for info on how it goes
like one writeup claimed they were legit but there was some funky thing that was legal with a Concealed, but they claimed was 100% illegal no matter what
I'm not planning an bringing my giant knife with a skull flipping the bird around, but I do have a few spring-assists that due to chinesium manufacturing standards are a hair on the wrong side of four inches to the point I don't really carry them just in case

 

[37yearolddickrightnow]

They will just ask for more and more reparations 24/7 or claim the original wasn't enough. They already get infinite welfare and EBT, yet they are always still asking for more. They are not logical.

Exactly. It is identical with the first nation Indians in Canada. You can give them near infinite amounts of money and it is never enough. Like nigs use slavery as their unending grievance, the chugs use residential schools as theirs. Victimhood is hardwired into their DNA at this point.

 

[wierfrost87]

First you need to reprogram white people to stop being empathetic and sympathetic to suicidal degrees

But don’t suicidally empathetic whites view reparations as a way to correct those wrongs? Therefore if the reparations are paid, that tips the scales significantly because only the true grifters will be left and they were never redeemable.

 

[Jace on ice]

Karmelo supporters keep talking about the fucking knife. It was a small bullshit knife, they say, not a "deadly weapon", they say, as if that matters after someone's been killed with it.

The belt that keeps your pants up isn't a deadly weapon either, but you can still strangle someone to death with it if the opportunity arises. So what?

Maybe I'm slow, but it finally dawned on me why they keep talking about the knife and it's because they're hung up on INTENT. Karmelo's $10 Wal-Mart blade isn't the kind of thing that one uses to carry out a premeditated murder

Okay. I can see that. Karmelo likely didn't brush his teeth that morning contemplating murder.

But they don't appreciate that intent to murder can happen in a single second. And if you intended to murder in that one second of your entire life and you did it with whatever tool you had on-hand, that matters legally.

The surveillance video shows Nigmelo stabbing Austin and running away in about three seconds.

Austin had no time to threaten him or back off or anything else.

It doesn't matter now because the niggers in prison but the attack happened so fast that it was almost guaranteed to be a premeditated hit and if you dug deeper you'd eventually find that Karmelo had a preexisting grudge and acted on it.

 

[deleuzeon]

So what if a one-time reparation payment means no more welfare of any kind ever?

There is nothing you could offer black people to extract from them a concession that the "debt" is paid. They will take and take and take until there is nothing left to take. Then they will mill around aimlessly, glaring at the dusty wastes.

 

[blue gopher snakes]

Historically, there isn’t much of a history for paying reparations beyond cash except for Native Americans. Those reparations MIGHT make sense given that there was a history of us forcibly removing them from land they occupied for our own use

Have you been to an Indian reservation? They are miserable shit holes filled with spiritually broken browns living in utter squalor. Life would unironically be better for them today if they had been forced to assimilate with their conquerors instead of being put in sad little brown people fenced in areas. Reparations (and reservations) only kick the problem-can down the line to the next generation (or the next, or the next). They were a conquered people. Why would a conquered people be given so many concessions? Why would they be given sovereignty (even if it’s just them being sovereign over their shitass little junkyard reservation kingdoms) at all?

No reparations for anybody. Conquerors need to stop apologizing or bowing to the opinions and will of the conquered.

 

[ShitLurker]

But don’t suicidally empathetic whites view reparations as a way to correct those wrongs? Therefore if the reparations are paid, that tips the scales significantly because only the true grifters will be left and they were never redeemable.

Doesn't work that way. Stop thinking like a rational actor. Niggers will wheep and affluent white women will feel pity which will propagate to the simps and suddenly you need another round of reparations. It's all short term emotion based. Nothing makes whitey squirm more than "being mean" and that's a genetic/cultural defect that needs to be removed outright if there is ever any hope to not be suckered perpetually into giving gibs to every retard with a sob story that is brown.

No reparations for anybody. Conquerors need to stop apologizing or bowing to the opinions and will of the conquered.

This is the true crux of the issue. The conquerer is now weak and easilly emotionally blackmailed.

 

[wierfrost87]

and that's a genetic/cultural defect that needs to be removed outright if there is ever any hope to not ne suckered perpetually into giving gibs to every retard with a sob story that is brown.

We’ve given reparations to natives and even Asians who were put into campus during WW2. Blacks are probably the only group of people who have been clearly historically wronged that haven’t received reparations.

There is no other group of people with even a plausible argument for reparations except those who already received them.

I’m not all about giving blacks whatever they want (which is why my suggestion was giving them an appearance of reparations to shut up and go away, far less than what they claim is reasonable and in a way that likely benefits whites significantly), but maybe we should at least try being consistent with facts.

 

[ShitLurker]

We’ve given reparations to natives and even Asians who were put into campus during WW2. Blacks are probably the only group of people who have been clearly historically wronged that haven’t received reparations.

Fuck you and die cuck.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Blacks are probably the only group of people who have been clearly historically wronged that haven’t received reparations.

Nigga, pick up a history book. This is not true. Second - 750k US soldiers died for niggers. Then you have SNAP, housing assistance, and other welfare programs where they are prioritized. In 2025 alone, we spent over like 2 trillion on welfare.

They are absolute leeches and offer nothing to society. Every other race on earth is better - Even the most ghetto Native American reservations who have the bullshit tribal court system still do less crime and normally are more productive then niggers, and they were absolutely fucked harder in all regards.

 

[wierfrost87]

Nigga, pick up a history book. This is not true. Second - 750k US soldiers died for niggers. Then you have SNAP, housing assistance, and other welfare programs where they are prioritized. In 2025 alone, we spent over like 2 trillion on welfare.

They are absolute leeches and offer nothing to society. Every other race on earth is better - Even the most ghetto Native American reservations who have the bullshit tribal court system still do less crime and normally are more productive then niggers, and they were absolutely fucked harder in all regards.

I appreciate the comment. I’m moving on back to Karmelo.

 

[Lord Of Shit]

Exactly. It is identical with the first nation Indians in Canada. You can give them near infinite amounts of money and it is never enough. Like nigs use slavery as their unending grievance, the chugs use residential schools as theirs. Victimhood is hardwired into their DNA at this point.

And the horrible thing about this is that the only lesson to be taken is: in any clash between civilisations, if you win, show the loser no mercy.

Annihilate his culture. His totems, his gods, his language must all be destroyed.

We’ve given reparations to natives and even Asians who were put into campus during WW2. Blacks are probably the only group of people who have been clearly historically wronged that haven’t received reparations.

There is no other group of people with even a plausible argument for reparations except those who already received them.

I’m not all about giving blacks whatever they want (which is why my suggestion was giving them an appearance of reparations to shut up and go away, far less than what they claim is reasonable and in a way that likely benefits whites significantly), but maybe we should at least try being consistent with facts.

The "reparations" given to natives were at least based in treaty violations.
The reparations made to the Japanese put into camps during WWII were made to those living people who had actually suffered.

Show me a living slave, and I'll show you an African housemaid beaten mercilessly by her Nigerian owner.

The masters and the slaves are all long-dead. What other group would be so shameless as to demand compensation from those whom never wronged them, for wrongs they never experienced? We not do punish the son for the sins of his father (well, North Korea does; fine company to join, there), yet here, they would have us punish the great-great-grandfathers?

How about this: any black who can prove descent from a slave, and can also prove that Mr. Whitey McSoAndSo is the descendant of the man who held that slave, would have standing to seek compensation. Oh, and they must begin by seeking relief from the descendants of those Africans who captured and sold them off as a product in the first place.

 

[ShitLurker]

And the horrible thing about this is that the only lesson to be taken is: in any clash between civilisations, if you win, show the loser no mercy.

Just saying, nobody is giving shit to the north african slavers. Turns out castrating them saves you a lot of bullshit.

 

[TowinKarz]

We’ve given reparations to natives and even Asians who were put into campus during WW2. Blacks are probably the only group of people who have been clearly historically wronged that haven’t received reparations.

All those enslaved people are dead.

As are the ones who wronged them.

Guilt, be it criminal or civil liability, does not transfer to descendants, either plaintiff or defendant, who were not even alive at the time of the crime.

"slave" and "slave owner" are not inheritible titles of nobility forever stuck on someone by blood.

I resent being told I have to pay someone for something a person who looked like me did to a person who looked like them 160 years ago and told with a straight face (if not a sneer) that the ethics of it are completely logical and I can only object if I'm a racist.

No.