Newly released surveillance footage captures the moments a 17-year-old high school student fled after fatally stabbing a fellow athlete at a Texas track meet, then admitted to officers “I’m not alleged. I did it” when taken into custody.
Surveillance Captures Fatal Stabbing Aftermath
Collin County court released videos and photos Friday showing Karmelo Anthony running from the tent where he stabbed Austin Metcalf at David Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, 2025. The surveillance footage shows Anthony fleeing through the stands and onto the track immediately after the attack. Additional video captures him walking past track tents before the stabbing, and a third shows his arrest on the track shortly after. The released evidence includes crime scene photos, bodycam footage, 911 calls, and images of the blood-soaked jacket and Ozark Trail multi-tool knife prosecutors identified as the murder weapon.
Desperate 911 Call Reveals Chaos
Audio from the 911 call following the attack captures frantic efforts to save Metcalf’s life. A caller reported an Army veteran was compressing the wound as people shouted in the background. “There’s a lot of blood. He’s not breathing,” the caller told operators, adding that Metcalf had become unconscious. The recording captures someone yelling “Stay with me, Austin!” and “Fight through, Austin!” as bystanders performed chest compressions. The caller said he didn’t initially know who committed the stabbing but believed other students witnessed the attack.
Self-Defense Claim Rejected By Jury
Anthony stabbed Metcalf with a 3.5-inch blade after Metcalf and his brother confronted him while he sat in their team’s tent at Memorial High School, prosecutors said. In bodycam footage, Anthony told officers “He put his hands on me. I told him not to. He put his hands on me.” Anthony admitted to the stabbing but claimed self-defense. Prosecutor Bill Wirskye noted the weapon was “not particularly a quality knife” but proved lethal when Anthony pulled it from his backpack during the confrontation. A jury convicted Anthony of first-degree murder earlier this month, sentencing him to 35 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence. The conviction sparked criticism from Anthony’s supporters regarding the jury’s composition. Judge John Roach authorized releasing the trial evidence to provide transparency now that proceedings have concluded.
Two young men died that day. One within minutes and the other will slowly waste away until a career criminal shoves a sharpened plastic knife in his heart in order to earn some “creds”. Poetic justice some will say. Few will actually morn Anthony. His cowardly crime will be long forgotten by most of us. His family will have lived in their new house and driven their new car that was purchased with the GoFundMe $680,000 + that was donated by many people before the truth came out. They may even be able to get more if they can stretch this out. They have 15-35 years to get more. I, personally do not care about what happens to him. I do care about the people who influenced a impressionable young man and guided him in his quest to earn his “Creds” by murdering another young man. For all practical purposes, this should never have happened. Many have stated that Anthony was a good kid (and that is what he was until he became a murder) The look of total surprise and shock that was on his face when he understood that he would spend the next 35 years in a prison, populated with criminal rapist and other murders leads me to believe he was coached in this crime and promised he would be tried as a juvenile. I think he believed he would be a hero in the eyes of some and back on the street in three years. He believed he would serve his time in a juvenile facility and be released on his 21st birthday. After all, he is just a kid and kids are not responsiable for what they do. I would like to see a push for an in-depth investigation in this case to see who got into this young mans head and convinced him that he was doing a good thing. His life history does not support his ACTING ALONE.
Back in grade school we were told anyone over the age of 8 should be able to handle a disagreememt without resorting to violence. 8 years old for me would have been 1955. What changed was not expecting kids to grow up to expectations but treating them like little kids at the age many people fought in WW 2.