
On June 9, Karmelo Anthony, 19, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
He was found guilty in the April 2, 2025, fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, a track athlete from a rival high school, during a Frisco Independent School District track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony, then a student at Centennial High, stabbed Metcalf in the chest during an altercation.
Anthony’s defense claimed he acted in self-defense, despite Metcalf being unarmed.
While both the prosecution and defense maintained that race played no role in the crime, the story has been heavily racialized publicly due to the fact that Anthony is black, Metcalf was white, and no black jurors were seated.
“They want you to see not the dead boy and the knife and
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