The father of the suspect accused of fatally stabbing Texas high school star athlete Austin Metcalf at a track meet Wednesday morning told the New York Post his son “was not the aggressor” in the confrontation.
“Everyone has already made their assumptions about my son, but he’s not what they’re making him out to be,” Andrew Anthony told the Post.
‘I was protecting myself.’
Frisco police told KXAS-TV they arrested and charged 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony with the murder of Metcalf, also 17.
Jeff Metcalf, the victim’s father, added to the station that the suspect got angry after being told he was in the wrong place at Kuykendall Stadium and being asked to move: “I’m not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have? What
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