June 1, 2026
Murder Trial Begins For 17-Year-Old Accused Of Stabbing Fellow Teen At High School Track Meet
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RSS Feed Jury selection is underway for 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony who is facing life in prison for the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Texas last year. Extra security is in place at the courthouse and there is a strict electronic gag for members of the media given all the racial tensions that have erupted in the aftermath of the murder. Anthony is black, Metcalf was white, and a significant amount of misinformation has circulated online that resulted in death threats for both the victim’s and the defendant’s families over the past several months.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, June first, and today the trial gets underway for a seventeen year old accused of killing another seventeen year old. But the conversation surrounding this trial is expected to be ugly, and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Rome's kind of a reminder here. This was a story that made national headlines when it happened, and here we are. The trial of Carmelo Anthony underway as we speak.
00:00:32
Speaker 2: Yes, jury selection begins today and there are some strict rules in place. As a young man, Carmelo Anthony is facing life in prison for the stabbing death of another teen and it all happened at a track meet. These were two athletes at competing schools. But there are racial I don't even want to say undertones. There is a racial war in the background of this horrific tragedy that's taking place. People are taking sides. There's all sorts of ugliness going around.
00:01:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, you say, it's in the background, and unfortunately it's probably going to come to the forefront during this trial. We'll get into the back and forth. But yes, Carmelo Anthony, Yes, Carmelo with the k A lot of people, even if you're not a big time basketball fan, can recognize that name of Olympian Hall of Famer former New York nick Yeah, even Carmelo Anthony, same name, spelled differently. This kid spells his with a K. But yes, Carmelo Anthony is his name. But he's black and the kid he is accused of stabbing and killing is white. Now, I don't think robes race had anything to do with the crime. No race came into play after the crime and the conversations about who is being treated fairly by the justice system, why there's no outrage in the case, False information online people's address has been put out security, all kinds of things have happened around that. We'll get into a little more. But right this kid is facing life in prison.
00:02:12
Speaker 2: Five to ninety nine years, I believe because he was I mean, he's under eighteen at the time of the murder, so he wasn't eligible for I guess capital punishment work. The death penalty was off the table immediately because of his age at the time of the crime. So yes, he's facing up to ninety nine years, which yes, is a life sentence.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: He's in court today that we expect jury selection to happen on two days a Monday and Wednesday. I'm not sure about their schedule there in Texas, but they're skipping one day right Tuesday and moment. Oh it's voting, I must be.
00:02:50
Speaker 2: But there must be something to do with voting because primary day is Tuesday, so there must be some sort of primary going on some election day.
00:02:56
Speaker 1: So maybe that's it. But yeah, no sense expect the opening to happen until Thursday. We will not hear them. We'll explain why. Yes, there's a pretty difficult gag order here, but a reminder robes of the crime. This was in April of last year. This happened, so we're not too far removed. But this is one of those split second decisions in a moment that changes your life, and it just seems so unnecessary.
00:03:21
Speaker 2: It's so awful to hear what happened. Yes, this is a track meet. It was an intra school track meet at the Frisco Independent School District stadium. And yes it from most accounts, it was Carmelo Anthony who was under the tent of and we should mention I don't know if we said his name. The victim, Austin Metcalf, but so Anthony Carmelo went into the tent of Metcalf's school, and according to folks, there was an altercation between the two where Austin Metcalf basically told him to leave, to get out of here, and some back and forth, back and forth, which apparently at one point Carmelo Anthony says, touch me and see what happens. And so whatever account you want to hear, people say he touched him, he pushed him, he shoved him, some sort of physicality took place, and according to eyewitnesses, Carmelo then went into his bag and allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf once in the chest. But it was a fatal stabbing.
00:04:27
Speaker 1: So just seventeen year old kids, an altercation like that, something happens that attracted me a split second. Nothing right. They said it was a rain delay. So that's why Carmelo Anthony was under another team. He was seeking shelter. Essentially, it was rainy under tent because it was rainy, and the other guy tells him to get out and put his hands on him. Okay, let's fight it out. That's what we used to do when I was in high school. Robes I just we hate these robes. How many stories do we cover? Just a split second decision changes your life?
00:04:59
Speaker 2: Yeah and one you know you it's so, I was just looking at this thinking and all the places for him to stab.
00:05:05
Speaker 1: You.
00:05:05
Speaker 2: Hear about people surviving like nineteen stab wounds and still living. This kid had one stab wound to the heart. And he had a twin brother and reportedly he literally bled out in his brother's arms, his identical twin brother's arms. It's just a horrific situation. And imagine you've got like an entire stadium waiting to watch these young men compete against one another in a track meet. And this was in the malling happened.
00:05:33
Speaker 1: It was in the morning, it was at the very beginning of the day there, that's right. So Ropes the race that comes into it. Yeah, that's so, Carmela Anthony is going to according to the police report, I should speak on first here Ropes. According to the arrest report, obviously he admitted to it. There were witnesses that saw it. But it's going to be a self defense o case because he is according to some of the comments he made, they were in the arrest report. He was already asked, did what I do look like self defense? Could that be deemed self defense? He asked how the kid was doing at one point according to the arrest report. What did he mean to kill somebody that day? Why did it get that bad? Ah, you hate that, But I mentioned they're going to have opening arguments on Thursday. You and I are very adept at finding live streams online. We are very good at going to court TV. No need this time, we won't see it.
00:06:33
Speaker 2: No. And look, they've got reporters positioned in the courtroom, and there are very strict rules by this judge. No cell phones allowed in that courtroom. That's significant. No recording devices obviously, no cameras in the courtroom either, but reporters are allowed to take notes. And I believe he said certain reporters they had to all be cleared, could actually bring in a laptop to take those notes. And so there are some local reporters who say they will be giving live updates from the courtroom via their I guess their computers. That's the only way we're going to be getting information in somewhat real time. But the reason why the judge had to put these very strict rules in place, security and there is a significant amount of security concerns for the families involved, for people who are on either side. This really created this awful tension in the community, so much so that the judge is having to actually bring in extra security for this trial to take place. It's just such a sad situation to begin with, and to think that it's bubbled up into this awful US versus them now and with yes divided along racial lines here in that community. It's just awful to think that that's happening on top of a tragedy that already occurred a year ago.
00:07:52
Speaker 1: So what is it, yes, what is it? Exactly? What has happened that has caused the judge to put the gag order and the need all this security. We'll stay here. We'll explain all the back and forth, the conversation that's been going on surrounding this case and race.
00:08:08
Speaker 2: Stay here, Welcome back, everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a very high profile and now yes, high security trial that is taking place in Texas right now. Jury selection is underway for the murder trial of Carmelo Anthony. He is accused of stabbing to death a fellow seventeen year old, a fellow track athlete. This all occurred last year in the early morning hours of an inter school track meet. There was a rain delay and Carmelo Anthony gets under the tent of Austin Metcalf. There's a back and forth that goes on and it ends with Carmelo Anthony stabbing Austin Metcalf once. But that stabbing proved to be fatal.
00:09:08
Speaker 1: Now I see right, this just happened. Then his brother just accept his high school diploma, and.
00:09:16
Speaker 2: It was his twin brother just accepted his graduation diploma on his behalf. There was a standing ovation literally, I believe this happened last week. So there's just a lot of emotion tied to this. And now because the defendant Carmelo is black and the victim, Austin was white, you've got a huge back and forth that started online and just has erupted into the community. And there's real concern about the safety of both families, the victim's family and the defendant's family. They've had to leave jobs, move I mean, that's how bad it's gotten. Because there was so much false information put online that got full upset beyond what the tragedy already was.
00:10:05
Speaker 1: Did I see right? They even had had to have security at the funerals and metcalf that's how silly it's got. So what took place in the back and forth, Robes, So you have two different communities, and for the sake of it, I'll just say black and white. Yep, right, So folks on one side, the white folks, we're framing this as Wow, if a white person had done this to a teenager, that would be outraged and be screaming our outrace. You'd be going crazy, be in the headlines, look at what happened to this young person, or you call it a police shooting or whatever else. But if a white person had killed a black person, that would be all this outrage about black lives matter. You have on the other side, black folks, robes who have plenty of experience and we have seen it throughout our time and history in this country of being treated unfairly by the justice system. So what another side is calling for is just simply a fair trial. Wait for all the information to come out. Stop with the misinformation about who this kid is and where he's from and all these other things. So Robes, we are ones again black versus white in the conversation over what was actually robes a tragedy that had nothing to do with raise.
00:11:23
Speaker 2: It was ego, it was two seventeen year old boys joan yeah each other. Yeah exactly. And by the way, all of those posts that were creating all sorts of false narratives, including a fake account that posed as the police chief saying that a like there was an autopsy report that claimed drugs were involved, Like this is the type of disinformation that was spreading. They had Instagram screenshots of guns, like there was just all of this posturing and false information to the point where these posts, by the way, according to CBS News, garnered nearly fifty million views, So people were consuming all of these false information, all of this hate, and just creating even more animosity and more anger surrounding something that was just so unnecessary to the idea that both the victim and the suspect's families have had their home addresses posted online, that's horrific. Both families have received threats the suspect, the defendant's family, his mother actually got got in front of microphones and cameras and said, please stop, like my other children, my husband, meet like we're all being subjected to death threats. This isn't okay. They had to move. They moved behind a gated community. They were able. I think a lot of people have made a they've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, but his for their son's defense, but also so that they could move because they weren't safe in their home.
00:12:52
Speaker 1: And this is where we are again, Robes. There is Yes, there's a disparity and the justice system, there's respair and how these cases are covered, how we talk about these cases. Of course it's there. And unfortunately race is about to make befront and center in this case, and it didn't start that way. Unfortunately it's going to end that way. But he's saying self defense from a sow. Many time, there have been murderers on trial, and I'll sit right here and say that's an innocent man until otherwise. This kid is innocent. And yes, I know he was seventeen and he's black, but he's still a child. Right. We don't see black boys oftentimes once they hit hell fourteen fifteen sixteen, there view differently in this country. This is a kid too.
00:13:44
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, and I think I do bring people made a big issue about the fact that he was allowed to stay with his family, that his bail was reduced I think from a million to two hundred and fifty thousand, so he was allowed to be home and monitored all of that. But look at what's going on right now with Anna Keepner case and her stepbrother. He too is a child, is a minor. He was also allowed he's white. He was allowed to also go back with his uncle and await his trial as well. So that does seem fair. It's not that he was getting special privileges. He is a child, he is a minor, and regardless of his race, that is typically what we do see happen in the justice department. Even if you're charged with a very serious adult crime, if you are under age, oftentimes we see judges we understand not putting those children in the general population of prisoners while they await trial.
00:14:38
Speaker 1: But no matter what, he should get a fair trial. If it's self defense, he should get a chance to prove that. And there is no other judgment to make other than that. And Robes right now, it's just awful that this kid is dead. Austin Medcalf should have been graduating high school right now and looking forward to what and going where and having what. This is awful, awful, awful. He did die at the hands of another seventeen year old. We'll let a jury figure out exactly what happened and who should be punished and for how long. But this is going to be an ugly one, folks, unfortunately here.
00:15:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we look. We will follow the live reporting and bring you any details we get. But this judge is already you can tell he is prepared. He knows the just the tension that is surrounding this case within the community, and it seems like he is doing his best to keep it in check and to keep most importantly, everyone who is a part of the story safe and secure while they try to meet out justice the way it's supposed to be done in this country. And so we will continue to watch this trial bring you the very latest from it, but just wanted to put it on your radar. In the meantime though, I'm Amy Robock alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, June first, and today the trial gets underway for a seventeen year old accused of killing another seventeen year old. But the conversation surrounding this trial is expected to be ugly, and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Rome's kind of a reminder here. This was a story that made national headlines when it happened, and here we are. The trial of Carmelo Anthony underway as we speak.
00:00:32
Speaker 2: Yes, jury selection begins today and there are some strict rules in place. As a young man, Carmelo Anthony is facing life in prison for the stabbing death of another teen and it all happened at a track meet. These were two athletes at competing schools. But there are racial I don't even want to say undertones. There is a racial war in the background of this horrific tragedy that's taking place. People are taking sides. There's all sorts of ugliness going around.
00:01:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, you say, it's in the background, and unfortunately it's probably going to come to the forefront during this trial. We'll get into the back and forth. But yes, Carmelo Anthony, Yes, Carmelo with the k A lot of people, even if you're not a big time basketball fan, can recognize that name of Olympian Hall of Famer former New York nick Yeah, even Carmelo Anthony, same name, spelled differently. This kid spells his with a K. But yes, Carmelo Anthony is his name. But he's black and the kid he is accused of stabbing and killing is white. Now, I don't think robes race had anything to do with the crime. No race came into play after the crime and the conversations about who is being treated fairly by the justice system, why there's no outrage in the case, False information online people's address has been put out security, all kinds of things have happened around that. We'll get into a little more. But right this kid is facing life in prison.
00:02:12
Speaker 2: Five to ninety nine years, I believe because he was I mean, he's under eighteen at the time of the murder, so he wasn't eligible for I guess capital punishment work. The death penalty was off the table immediately because of his age at the time of the crime. So yes, he's facing up to ninety nine years, which yes, is a life sentence.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: He's in court today that we expect jury selection to happen on two days a Monday and Wednesday. I'm not sure about their schedule there in Texas, but they're skipping one day right Tuesday and moment. Oh it's voting, I must be.
00:02:50
Speaker 2: But there must be something to do with voting because primary day is Tuesday, so there must be some sort of primary going on some election day.
00:02:56
Speaker 1: So maybe that's it. But yeah, no sense expect the opening to happen until Thursday. We will not hear them. We'll explain why. Yes, there's a pretty difficult gag order here, but a reminder robes of the crime. This was in April of last year. This happened, so we're not too far removed. But this is one of those split second decisions in a moment that changes your life, and it just seems so unnecessary.
00:03:21
Speaker 2: It's so awful to hear what happened. Yes, this is a track meet. It was an intra school track meet at the Frisco Independent School District stadium. And yes it from most accounts, it was Carmelo Anthony who was under the tent of and we should mention I don't know if we said his name. The victim, Austin Metcalf, but so Anthony Carmelo went into the tent of Metcalf's school, and according to folks, there was an altercation between the two where Austin Metcalf basically told him to leave, to get out of here, and some back and forth, back and forth, which apparently at one point Carmelo Anthony says, touch me and see what happens. And so whatever account you want to hear, people say he touched him, he pushed him, he shoved him, some sort of physicality took place, and according to eyewitnesses, Carmelo then went into his bag and allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf once in the chest. But it was a fatal stabbing.
00:04:27
Speaker 1: So just seventeen year old kids, an altercation like that, something happens that attracted me a split second. Nothing right. They said it was a rain delay. So that's why Carmelo Anthony was under another team. He was seeking shelter. Essentially, it was rainy under tent because it was rainy, and the other guy tells him to get out and put his hands on him. Okay, let's fight it out. That's what we used to do when I was in high school. Robes I just we hate these robes. How many stories do we cover? Just a split second decision changes your life?
00:04:59
Speaker 2: Yeah and one you know you it's so, I was just looking at this thinking and all the places for him to stab.
00:05:05
Speaker 1: You.
00:05:05
Speaker 2: Hear about people surviving like nineteen stab wounds and still living. This kid had one stab wound to the heart. And he had a twin brother and reportedly he literally bled out in his brother's arms, his identical twin brother's arms. It's just a horrific situation. And imagine you've got like an entire stadium waiting to watch these young men compete against one another in a track meet. And this was in the malling happened.
00:05:33
Speaker 1: It was in the morning, it was at the very beginning of the day there, that's right. So Ropes the race that comes into it. Yeah, that's so, Carmela Anthony is going to according to the police report, I should speak on first here Ropes. According to the arrest report, obviously he admitted to it. There were witnesses that saw it. But it's going to be a self defense o case because he is according to some of the comments he made, they were in the arrest report. He was already asked, did what I do look like self defense? Could that be deemed self defense? He asked how the kid was doing at one point according to the arrest report. What did he mean to kill somebody that day? Why did it get that bad? Ah, you hate that, But I mentioned they're going to have opening arguments on Thursday. You and I are very adept at finding live streams online. We are very good at going to court TV. No need this time, we won't see it.
00:06:33
Speaker 2: No. And look, they've got reporters positioned in the courtroom, and there are very strict rules by this judge. No cell phones allowed in that courtroom. That's significant. No recording devices obviously, no cameras in the courtroom either, but reporters are allowed to take notes. And I believe he said certain reporters they had to all be cleared, could actually bring in a laptop to take those notes. And so there are some local reporters who say they will be giving live updates from the courtroom via their I guess their computers. That's the only way we're going to be getting information in somewhat real time. But the reason why the judge had to put these very strict rules in place, security and there is a significant amount of security concerns for the families involved, for people who are on either side. This really created this awful tension in the community, so much so that the judge is having to actually bring in extra security for this trial to take place. It's just such a sad situation to begin with, and to think that it's bubbled up into this awful US versus them now and with yes divided along racial lines here in that community. It's just awful to think that that's happening on top of a tragedy that already occurred a year ago.
00:07:52
Speaker 1: So what is it, yes, what is it? Exactly? What has happened that has caused the judge to put the gag order and the need all this security. We'll stay here. We'll explain all the back and forth, the conversation that's been going on surrounding this case and race.
00:08:08
Speaker 2: Stay here, Welcome back, everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a very high profile and now yes, high security trial that is taking place in Texas right now. Jury selection is underway for the murder trial of Carmelo Anthony. He is accused of stabbing to death a fellow seventeen year old, a fellow track athlete. This all occurred last year in the early morning hours of an inter school track meet. There was a rain delay and Carmelo Anthony gets under the tent of Austin Metcalf. There's a back and forth that goes on and it ends with Carmelo Anthony stabbing Austin Metcalf once. But that stabbing proved to be fatal.
00:09:08
Speaker 1: Now I see right, this just happened. Then his brother just accept his high school diploma, and.
00:09:16
Speaker 2: It was his twin brother just accepted his graduation diploma on his behalf. There was a standing ovation literally, I believe this happened last week. So there's just a lot of emotion tied to this. And now because the defendant Carmelo is black and the victim, Austin was white, you've got a huge back and forth that started online and just has erupted into the community. And there's real concern about the safety of both families, the victim's family and the defendant's family. They've had to leave jobs, move I mean, that's how bad it's gotten. Because there was so much false information put online that got full upset beyond what the tragedy already was.
00:10:05
Speaker 1: Did I see right? They even had had to have security at the funerals and metcalf that's how silly it's got. So what took place in the back and forth, Robes, So you have two different communities, and for the sake of it, I'll just say black and white. Yep, right, So folks on one side, the white folks, we're framing this as Wow, if a white person had done this to a teenager, that would be outraged and be screaming our outrace. You'd be going crazy, be in the headlines, look at what happened to this young person, or you call it a police shooting or whatever else. But if a white person had killed a black person, that would be all this outrage about black lives matter. You have on the other side, black folks, robes who have plenty of experience and we have seen it throughout our time and history in this country of being treated unfairly by the justice system. So what another side is calling for is just simply a fair trial. Wait for all the information to come out. Stop with the misinformation about who this kid is and where he's from and all these other things. So Robes, we are ones again black versus white in the conversation over what was actually robes a tragedy that had nothing to do with raise.
00:11:23
Speaker 2: It was ego, it was two seventeen year old boys joan yeah each other. Yeah exactly. And by the way, all of those posts that were creating all sorts of false narratives, including a fake account that posed as the police chief saying that a like there was an autopsy report that claimed drugs were involved, Like this is the type of disinformation that was spreading. They had Instagram screenshots of guns, like there was just all of this posturing and false information to the point where these posts, by the way, according to CBS News, garnered nearly fifty million views, So people were consuming all of these false information, all of this hate, and just creating even more animosity and more anger surrounding something that was just so unnecessary to the idea that both the victim and the suspect's families have had their home addresses posted online, that's horrific. Both families have received threats the suspect, the defendant's family, his mother actually got got in front of microphones and cameras and said, please stop, like my other children, my husband, meet like we're all being subjected to death threats. This isn't okay. They had to move. They moved behind a gated community. They were able. I think a lot of people have made a they've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, but his for their son's defense, but also so that they could move because they weren't safe in their home.
00:12:52
Speaker 1: And this is where we are again, Robes. There is Yes, there's a disparity and the justice system, there's respair and how these cases are covered, how we talk about these cases. Of course it's there. And unfortunately race is about to make befront and center in this case, and it didn't start that way. Unfortunately it's going to end that way. But he's saying self defense from a sow. Many time, there have been murderers on trial, and I'll sit right here and say that's an innocent man until otherwise. This kid is innocent. And yes, I know he was seventeen and he's black, but he's still a child. Right. We don't see black boys oftentimes once they hit hell fourteen fifteen sixteen, there view differently in this country. This is a kid too.
00:13:44
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, and I think I do bring people made a big issue about the fact that he was allowed to stay with his family, that his bail was reduced I think from a million to two hundred and fifty thousand, so he was allowed to be home and monitored all of that. But look at what's going on right now with Anna Keepner case and her stepbrother. He too is a child, is a minor. He was also allowed he's white. He was allowed to also go back with his uncle and await his trial as well. So that does seem fair. It's not that he was getting special privileges. He is a child, he is a minor, and regardless of his race, that is typically what we do see happen in the justice department. Even if you're charged with a very serious adult crime, if you are under age, oftentimes we see judges we understand not putting those children in the general population of prisoners while they await trial.
00:14:38
Speaker 1: But no matter what, he should get a fair trial. If it's self defense, he should get a chance to prove that. And there is no other judgment to make other than that. And Robes right now, it's just awful that this kid is dead. Austin Medcalf should have been graduating high school right now and looking forward to what and going where and having what. This is awful, awful, awful. He did die at the hands of another seventeen year old. We'll let a jury figure out exactly what happened and who should be punished and for how long. But this is going to be an ugly one, folks, unfortunately here.
00:15:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we look. We will follow the live reporting and bring you any details we get. But this judge is already you can tell he is prepared. He knows the just the tension that is surrounding this case within the community, and it seems like he is doing his best to keep it in check and to keep most importantly, everyone who is a part of the story safe and secure while they try to meet out justice the way it's supposed to be done in this country. And so we will continue to watch this trial bring you the very latest from it, but just wanted to put it on your radar. In the meantime though, I'm Amy Robock alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.