Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial Opens With Jury Selection in 2025 Track-Meet Stabbing
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 1
Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial Opens With Jury Selection in 2025 Track-Meet Stabbing
11 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 1
Jury selection began Monday in Collin County for 18-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who faces a first-degree murder charge in the April 2, 2025 stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco high school track meet.
Self-defense is expected to be the central fight, with jurors likely asked to weigh who provoked or escalated the confrontation in the moments before the stabbing inside a team tent.
Publicity around the case could complicate seating a jury after online misinformation, doxing and threats drew FBI involvement for a judge previously tied to the proceedings, though a legal analyst said Collin County's nearly 1 million residents should still yield a panel.
Prosecutors say Anthony was indicted after grand-jury evidence supported a first-degree murder charge; police records say he told officers he acted in self-defense and made the statement, "I'm not alleged, I did it."
The trial is expected to hinge less on long-term planning than on witness accounts of the immediate encounter, with opening statements and possible lesser-offense instructions such as manslaughter likely to shape the case.
With conflicting stories of the fatal stabbing, what key evidence will decide if it was self-defense?
The defendant confessed, 'I did it.' How can his lawyers now argue he is not guilty of murder?