Texas teen sentenced to 35 years in track stabbing (opens in new tab)

A Collin County, Texas, jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder Tuesday and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco on April 2, 2025. Anthony, now 19, and Metcalf were both 17 at the time; jurors rejected Anthony’s self-defense claim after student witnesses described a confrontation that began when Anthony refused to leave a Memorial High School team tent during rainy weather. Prosecutors said Anthony escal...