A witness testified Monday that Karmelo Anthony was upset immediately after the confrontation that left Austin Metcalf dead at a Texas high school track meet in Frisco, telling the jury the 19-year-old warned the victim “not to touch me.”
The testimony landed as the murder trial entered its second week, giving jurors a firsthand account of the moments after the stabbing that prosecutors say killed the 17-year-old in April 2025. For readers following the Karmelo Anthony verdict, that matters because the defense is trying to show Anthony felt threatened, while prosecutors say the attack was unprovoked.
Anthony is charged with murder in the death of Metcalf, who was stabbed at a school stadium in the Dallas suburb during a rainy track meet. The case has centered on a dispute over whether Anthony could be under the tent used by Metcalf’s team, a small argument that prosecutors say escalated into violence.
The witness testimony pushed that account in a different direction. Saying Anthony appeared distraught right after the confrontation does not explain the stabbing itself, but it gives the defense something to work with as it presses a self-defense claim and tries to convince jurors that the encounter did not begin as a one-sided attack.
What remains unresolved is the chain of events in the few moments before the knife was used. The record so far shows two sharply different versions: prosecutors calling it an unprovoked killing tied to a tent dispute, and defense lawyers arguing Anthony believed he was in danger. Monday’s testimony did not settle that divide, but it made clear the jury is now hearing the case through the eyes of people who saw the aftermath up close.
