Texas jury convicts teen in fatal stabbing at 2025 track meet
What's next: Karmelo Anthony, 19, faces up to life in prison after jurors rejected his self-defense claim in less than three hours.
A Collin County jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. Jurors rejected Anthony's self-defense argument after less than three hours of deliberations and chose murder over the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Testimony showed the confrontation began when Anthony, then 17, stayed under a tent used by Metcalf's Memorial High School team during rainy weather. Witnesses said Metcalf and others repeatedly told him to leave. After Metcalf shoved him, Anthony pulled a knife and stabbed him in the chest, prosecutors said. Anthony, now 19, did not testify. The same jury will decide his sentence, and he faces up to life in prison.