Texas track meet killing was murder, not self-defense, prosecutor says

Texas track meet killing was murder, not self-defense, prosecutor says



The murder trial of Karmelo Anthony, a teen accused of killing Austin Metcalf in April 2025 is underway. Both were 17-years-old at the time when Anthony fatally stabbed Metcalf during a track meet in Frisco, Texas. CNN’s Laura Coates breaks down the case. #CNN #News

44 thoughts on “Texas track meet killing was murder, not self-defense, prosecutor says

  1. By the law it was 1st degelree murder. Hade the blade been 5" then the death penalty would have been on the table because that would have been a second felony.

    Everyone is offered a plea deal. Why didn't his parents urge him to take it? Sadly the crowd funding money is probably why this ypung man gets 35 years instead of a 7 year plea dealm. Heres the law explained. This lawyer goes point by point in the Texas law.

    https://youtu.be/pskbr_j-5ps?is=IRT9Hye2IDbGLgkw

  2. Even if he is guilty ….Not letting karmelo stay under the tent when it was raining shows their lack of positivity and racist hearts I would have been scared too karmelo was bullied the playing field is already unleveled in the justice system

  3. If he didn’t have a knife he would punch Austin back, OSS for both kids and life goes on, music is brainwashing kids to think knifes are good

  4. I do not condone violence, but this all could have been avoided had they had old fashioned fist fight! IMO Not self defence with a knife that had no place at any school track meet period!!! IMO

  5. The murderer got what he deserved. Sort of. He really deserved life in prison. Austin lost his entire life. Why does the thug who killed him deserve to walk free in a few years?

    Stabbing someone for shoving you is not self-defense. So glad the jury had more brains than this idiot reporter.

  6. COME ON AMERICA 🇺🇸 EVERYONE KNOWS IT WAS MURDER …. NOT SELF DEFENSE….. JUST BECAUSE KARMELO ANTHONY WAS A PUSSY PIECE OF SHIT 💩…..
    HE STARTS SHIT 💩 AND THEN SAYS THEY WERE BIGGER THAN HIM …..
    FUCK YOU PUSSY …. I FOUGHT BIGGER PEOPLE THAN ME BUT I NEVER STABBED ANYONE BECAUSE I WAS SKEERED
    REMEMBER AN ASS KICKING IS A ASS KICKING
    MAN UP AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR IDIOTIC STUPIFIED IGNORANT ACTIONS TGAT PUT YOU IN PRISON
    🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

  7. The video is clear. He was not surrounded no time for any real intimidation. It happened fast too fast. He could have run up the bleachers at anytime no one was above him. It is clear as day retreat was easy. He goes that way after the stabbing and has a clear path. How did he escape so easily if surrounded???

  8. OF COURSE CNN FALLS SHORT AGAIN AND FAILS TO REPORT THE TRUTH. LADY, YOUR JOURNALISM IS WHACK, QUIT TRYING TO PLACE DOUBTS INTO THE MINDS OF YOUR AUDIENCE, KILLMELO SHOULD’VE RECEIVED MAX PUNISHMENT AKA ☠️ PENALTY!!

  9. NO ONE UNDER THAT TENT KNEW THERE WAS A KNIFE EXCEPT ANTHONY HE WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT KNEW THERE WAS A KNIFE ANTHONY KNEW WHERE THE KNIFE WAS AND USED IT…… I CALL THAT GETTING THE DROP….

  10. They surrounded threatened assaulted then tried to jump Karmelo & while the twin had Karmelo in the headlock one of the other kids tried to stick Karmelo but stuck the twin. That kid then threw the weapon in the trash on camera

  11. Nobody knows the actual details. There is an appeal process which is in progress. We.know so-cslled.witnesses have been lying. How will the accusers react should the appeal.succeed and the facts are totally different?

  12. These two bullies barred this hold thing. Had it not been for them starting with Karmelo it’s possible he would still be alive. We are living in times that you can’t go around putting your hands on people and God know that these two Hunter and Austin stated this and one was unalive . I have so sympathy for any of them the mother the melon head father or Hunter . Both boys had choices reach out to a teacher, find a coach but certainly not the it upon yourself to tell him to move from under the SCHOOL”s tent which doesn’t belong to either of you. Mind your business and keep your hands to yourself.

  13. 21 people (black and white) said it wasn't self defense. Said Karmello was at fault and that's how he was convicted. Period. What did y'all want jurors to do. Make stuff up like people are doing on social media right now?

  14. Karmelo was at a school he didn’t attend. Watching a sport he wasn’t involved with. Brought a knife on school grounds “which is illegal” and he sat in the athletes tent if the opposing team & he killed someone. He’s 110% guilty and that’s why he got almost 4 decades of prison time.

  15. Let’s see…Anthony yells at Karmelo, gets aggressive with him, physically assaults him first, and Karmelo is to blame? None of this would have happened if Anthony kept his cool and did not resort to yelling and physical aggression. 100% self-defense and a heat of passion crime. There was no forethought…there was no plan…this was not murder. If anything, this was manslaughter with no malicious intent just self-defense. We live in a sick society if people get to put their hands on other and threaten them, but the victim is held responsible if they try to defend themselves. Racism is truly alive and well today. There are countless white men and white boys who have been sentenced to less time or no time at all for crimes they planned and executed.

    White men get to walk into a protest with guns and shoot people, get to walk into schools and kill people, and get to assault people verbally and physically with no consequences, but if a POC defends themselves against such aggression, they get pinned to the wall. Sick. Just sick

  16. Let’s see…Anthony yells at Karmelo, gets aggressive with him, physically assaults him first, and Karmelo is to blame? None of this would have happened if Anthony kept his cool and did not resort to yelling and physical aggression. 100% self-defense and a heat of passion crime. There was no forethought…there was no plan…this was not murder. If anything, this was manslaughter with no malicious intent just self-defense. We live in a sick society if people get to put their hands on other and threaten them, but the victim is held responsible if they try to defend themselves. Racism is truly alive and well today. There are countless white men and white boys who have been sentenced to less time or no time at all for crimes they planned and executed.

    White men get to walk into a protest with guns and shoot people, get to walk into schools and kill people, and get to assault people verbally and physically with no consequences, but if a POC defends themselves against such aggression, they get pinned to the wall. Sick. Just sick

  17. Stories are always told differently!!! If he feared for his life why didn't he just leave!!!!
    Guilty, only a high-school thug brings a knife to his school!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

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