A Texas jury found Karmelo Anthony guilty Tuesday of the 2025 murder of Austin Metcalf, a fellow high school student, at a Dallas-area track meet.
The verdict, reached in less than three hours and read by Texas District Court Judge John Roach Jr., carries a sentence of five years to life in prison. Anthony was 17 at the time, but Texas law allowed him to be charged as an adult. He is now 19.
Some in the courtroom reacted with cries, and Metcalf’s twin brother, Hunter, who made his first appearance in the courtroom, leaned forward. Anthony’s mother wept. Roach had warned people in the courtroom to control their emotions when the verdict was read. Anthony’s attorney kept an arm wrapped around him.
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Anthony admitted the stabbing, but his legal team argued he acted in self-defense, under the pressure of physical intimidation, after he had sat in the bleachers under the tent of rival high school Memorial and was confronted by members of its track team and told to leave.
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The defense called only Anthony’s mother to speak on his behalf before sentencing. She gave a tearful statement asking the jury to “please have mercy on my son.” She said he is her oldest and “is very sorry for what he did.” Anthony wept during her testimony.
Jurors were instructed to consider whether Anthony acted under the influence of “sudden passion,” which reduces the maximum penalty.
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Prosecuting attorney Bill Wirskye rebutted that depiction of events, saying it was Anthony who threatened Metcalf when he warned, “Touch me and find out,” quoting a trial witness.
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During the trial, several witnesses, many of them friends or teammates of Metcalf’s, said Metcalf at one point pushed Anthony to get him to move. There was some disagreement among them over how hard the push was. But several maintained Anthony bore primary responsibility, including a former friend of Anthony’s who invited him to the tent and was close to Metcalf.
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