MCKINNEY, Texas – The jury has reached a verdict in the case Karmelo Anthony who is accused of stabbing Austin Metcalf to death during a track meet last year.
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The 12-person Collin County jury began deliberating late Tuesday morning after defense attorneys and prosecutors delivered closing arguments.
Anthony faces a murder charge in the April 2, 2025, death of 17-year-old Metcalf at a stadium in the Dallas suburb of Frisco.
The defense rested its case Monday without calling Anthony to the witness stand.
During closing arguments Tuesday, Collin County District Attorney Bill Wirskye argued that Anthony provoked the confrontation, brought a hidden knife to the track meet, and launched an unjustified “sneak attack” on an unarmed victim.
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“You don’t get to meet a shove with a stab, especially if you provoke the shove,” Wirskye told jurors.
Defense attorney Mike Howard countered that Anthony, who was 17 at the time, acted out of a “split second of fear and chaos” after being confronted and pushed by the much larger Metcalf inside a crowded team tent where Anthony was sitting. Howard maintained that the stabbing was an act of self-defense.
Jurors can consider charges of murder or manslaughter. If convicted of murder, Anthony faces a maximum sentence of five to 99 years or life in prison.
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