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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/karmelo-anthony-found-guilty-murder-texas-high-school-stabbing-rcna349132McKINNEY, Texas — Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday, just hours after a Texas jury found him guilty of murder in the 2025 killing 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., could have carried a maximum of 99 years. Anthony was 17 at the time, but Texas law allowed him to be charged as an adult. He is now 19.
During the subsequent sentencing phase Tuesday evening, the jury did not consider defense arguments that Anthony’s attack was carried out under “sudden passion,” which could have reduced his time.
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.
Metcalf, 17, was fatally stabbed on April 2, 2025, as the track teams of Anthony’s Centennial High School and Metcalf’s Memorial High School participated in a districtwide meet in Frisco, a Dallas suburb.
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.
Metcalf died in Hunter’s arms that rainy day, their father said.
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Immediately following the verdict, the judge moved on to the sentencing hearing.
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.
Defense attorney Mike Howard told jurors that the law recognizes that “decisions made in the heat of the moment are different than decisions that come after reflection.”
But prosecutor Dewey Mitchell tried to sway jurors to impose a harsher sentence, saying, “Whether you like it or not, mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
In closing arguments earlier, Howard told jurors that prosecutors failed to prove his client did “anything but defend himself” after Metcalf and others became enraged that Anthony was in their high school’s tent.
Howard had sought to establish during the trial that going to rival teams’ tents and socializing is customary at meets, that Anthony was invited to the tent and that Metcalf and Hunter, standing nearby, were physically intimidating.
“Is it reasonable to worry these kids might jump in, that Hunter might pop in to defend his brother … because the split second of chaos is you can’t know what’s about to happen,” he said.
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.
The stabbing “is murder, murder, murder,” Wirskye said.
Wirskye maintained that the encounter was one-on-one and that others under the tent had not turned on him. Video shown during the trial supported that argument, he said.
He said that while some say the events were a tragedy for everyone involved, it’s not a tragedy for Anthony.
“It’s the decisions he made and that he has to come to terms with,” Wirskye said.
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.
Some of the key witnesses were under 18, and Roach issued an order preventing publishing their names.
A school resource officer testified that, after the stabbing, Anthony said he’d warned Metcalf not to touch him, but he also said Anthony said he had committed the stabbing and asked whether Metcalf was going to be OK.
Metcalf was the MVP of his football team and had a 4.0 GPA, his father, Jeff Metcalf, has said. “He was loved by many. He was a leader,” the elder Metcalf said.
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Anthony had a 3.7 GPA going into the last weeks of the school year in 2025, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported. He posted $250,000 bond and was placed under house arrest. He was permitted to graduate under an agreement between advocates and the Frisco Independent School District, according to the station
The case’s racial components — Metcalf was white and Anthony is Black — were debated online. A couple of weeks after Metcalf’s death, a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, pardoned by President Donald Trump, led a small protest at the stadium as leader of the group “Protect White America.” It drew counterprotesters and was denounced by Metcalf’s father.
Last week, the Next Generation Action Network, a civil rights organization that advocated in favor of Anthony, denounced the racial composition of the jury, noting that not one juror is Black.
Metcalf’s attorneys have downplayed race as an issue.
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The dude's dad is a complete cuck. Bro really tried to make everyone believe that his own son's brutal murder wasn't about race. "Its a human issue" what kind of race was this "human" Why is that this specific subset of humans always commit the crimes that they do? Is it still a human thing when you can identify the type of crime being committed by the type of human?
If I was his brother I would have immediately changed my name and completely separate myself from that shell of a man. The utter disgrace and disregard for dignity of his son is disgusting.
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Who wants to bet there is going to be a nation wide chimp out over this
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>>27266 (OP)I'm on 4cuck and this is my post
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>>27303If he made it about niggers the defence would just screech 'das wacist!!!' and try to get a mistrial.
Cuck amendments. Cuck country. Cuck world, unfortunately.
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>>27311It’s news you fucking faggot holy shit
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>>27303yeah, he fucking forgave his son’s killer too almost instantly too. He cucked himself publicly and niggers still are chimping out over it and are calling him and his family racist, it wouldn’t matter if he rightfully was bold and unforgiving or said something based about blacks, the outcome is the same. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
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>>27277Thanks for sharing this gem. Had a rough week and I really needed a good laugh.
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Nigger totally deserved life TND
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We're back baybe!!!!
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>>27402It seems like he still is a libtard and wants to forgive the nigger but that watermelon felon comment was actually crazy
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>>27405
He’s 17 you fucking pedo
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>>27406Fuck I didn't know I take that back
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can any whites in this thread explain why he should be subject to a different standard of justice? >>27400
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>>27409
Because black pipo are bad because they are not white
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>>27410Let's see how that goes over with US voters. We're taking over this November because everyone is sick of your disingenuous bullshit.
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>>27408Because he's a disgusting poop skinned nigger
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>>27400
MMMMM mmmm mmm he INNOCENT….. YALL CRACKAS IS JUS RAYCIS. DAY YTE BOI POLLY SAY SUM RACISS SHI…
MM IF YALL TAKE UP ALL DA CRIMES OF THE WHITE RACIST SOUR CREAM DEVIL VS US ALL IN OUR NATURAL HABITATS JUS PLAYING JUNGLE DRUMS AND BEIN ALL PEACEFUL WITH OURS SELVES AND THE RAPIST COLONIZERS YALL IS..
I THINK WE DESERVE TO RAPE AND KILL A FEW OF YALLS EVERY NOW AND DEN HMMM..
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>>27414He is not guilty. The prosecutor did not meet their burden of proof to show that Anthony arrived at the encounter the intention of stabbing and killing someone. Regardless of what the all white jury thinks. You're just a smelly chud that no one takes seriously
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It's especially silly when you have whites such as Jesse Butler Christopher Belter; who admitted to rape and given NO PRISON TIME
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Yeah I double posted I don't give a fuck, I hope all of you rightoids slip on a banana peel and fall face first into dog shit just before getting run over by a truck.
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HE DINDU NUFFIN, FUCK YALL WANT US TO DO? HE WUZ DEFENDING HIMSELF AND SHEIT
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I is a nigger. Bitch ass crakahs what's I suppose to tell all the lil niggas now!?!
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>can any whites in this thread explain why he should be subject to a different standard of justice? >>27400>>27408
Because he's a fucking nigger, lol
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>>27418thats wrong too.
but the hate on whitey over a small argument or even a fight turns into a stabbing or a mob chimp out is happening more often on whites. whites dont jump blacks these days. its not the deep south of 1960.
and it was always a small percentage of whites. most whites minded their own fucking business and left blacks alone. that's a fact. we didn't all own slaves. not even in the south. it was 2% at best and we know now many of them were Jewish and some even blacks who earned their freedom.
so this LIberal agenda to attack white males is over. Under binden these women and people of color openly expressing hate against white men in Congress calling for death and reduction. the brainwashing of white women to date black men. Humans especially women are easy to brainwash when you get a massive mob mentality going.
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probably is going to be raped by some dude in jail lol
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>>27452>thats wrong too>it just is, ok!??Yeah no one is falling for your bullshit.
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>Black people are to be feared but can never be afraid
Many such cases.
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not a single poopno read all this