TEXAS TWIN AUSTIN METCALF STABBED DEAD AT HS TRACK MEET: FAMILY TURMOIL

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🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Austin Metcalf's father says he hoped he could pray with the family of his son’s alleged killer, but ended up being escorted out of a press conference by police.

During a track meet between Memorial High School and Centennial High School in Frisco, Texas, light rain begins to fall, and athletes take cover under tents with their respective teams at Kuykendall Stadium.

Memorial High School athlete Austin Metcalf finds Centennial High School athlete Karmelo Anthony under the Memorial High School tent and tells him he needs to move from under his team's tent.

When Anthony refuses, words are exchanged, and Anthony tells Metcalf, "Touch me and see what happens."

Centennial High School's Karmelo Anthony allegedly reaches inside his bag, grabs a knife, stabs Austin Metcalf in the chest, and runs away. As Metcalf's twin brother, Hunter, comes to his brother's aid, witnesses point out Anthony to a nearby middle school resource officer, who chases the suspect down.

The school resource officer confronts Karmelo Anthony, telling him to put his hands up in the air. Anthony tells the officer, "I was protecting myself," claiming Metcalf "put his hands on" him. Anthony hears the officer say he has the "alleged stabbing suspect" in custody, and Anthony replies, "I'm not alleged. I did it." Anthony claims self-defense.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Lisa Herrick - Board-certified Juvenile Attorney, Partner at Varghese Summersett, and Former Juvenile Prosecutor; Instagram & X: versustexas, Facebook and Youtube: Varghese Summersett
Dr. John Delatorre - Licensed Psychologist and Mediator (specializing in forensic psychology); Psychological Consultant to Project Absentis: a nonprofit organization that searches for missing persons; Twitter, IG, and TikTok - @drjohndelatorre
Barry Hutchison - Former 26-year Law Enforcement Veteran and Detective, Owner & Chief Investigator for Barry & Associates Investigative Services located in Kansas & Missouri
Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), NEW Podcast [launching on April 14]; Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
Katy Barber - Senior Digital Content Producer at My San Antonio

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:11.0	At a high school track mate, a track star from one team, stabs a track star from another team dead.
0:22.4	In the last days, a press conference being held for the alleged killer
0:29.0	degenerates into chaos and the victim, Austin Metcalf's father is thrown out.
0:39.2	That's right.
0:39.7	The victim's father is thrown out of the press conference.
0:45.1	I'm Nancy Grace.
0:46.0	This is crime stories.
0:47.4	Thank you for being with us.
0:49.5	The father of a teen boy stabbed dead at a track meet in Texas was just thrown out of a press conference.
0:58.3	The conference was being held for the alleged killer.
1:01.5	The victim, Austin Metcalf's father, Jeff, was then attacked with shocking insults.
1:17.7	Insults from the defendant, the suspect's supporters.
1:31.4	Austin Metcalf's dad, Jeff, went to a press conference organized by supporters of a 17-year-old young man, the alleged killer, Carmelo Anthony.
1:45.3	Now, the dad, Austin Metcalf, had been standing with the press, was taken out of the venue when police were called to the Next Generation Action Network's headquarters there in Dallas.
1:50.2	What sparked this turn of events?
1:51.5	What do we know?
1:57.2	Austin Medcaft is a 17-year-old straight-A student and football star at Friscoe Memorial High School. But what is supposed to start out as an ordinary trackbeat ends in tragedy for the
2:02.2	prodigious athlete.
2:05.6	Two twin brothers scrubbed in sunshine.
2:09.9	One bleeds out dead in the arms of his twin brother.
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