Karmelo Anthony Trial Nears Closing Arguments in 17-Year-Old's Fatal Track Meet Stabbing
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Updated · The Boston Globe · Jun 9
Karmelo Anthony Trial Nears Closing Arguments in 17-Year-Old's Fatal Track Meet Stabbing
3 articles · Updated · The Boston Globe · Jun 9
Summary
Closing arguments are scheduled Tuesday in the McKinney trial of Karmelo Anthony, 19, who is charged with fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet and faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Teen witnesses said the confrontation escalated after Metcalf and others repeatedly told Anthony to leave a team tent; several testified Metcalf pushed him, and Anthony then pulled a knife and stabbed him in the chest.
Anthony did not testify, and his lawyers argued he acted in self-defense, while prosecutors called the stabbing an unjustified attack and pointed to witnesses who described Anthony as the aggressor.
Testimony centered on shocked students' recollections, including accounts that Anthony said, "I told him not to touch me" and later told a coach he stabbed someone who had "put his hands on me."
The killing stunned the Dallas suburb of Frisco and drew wider attention after social media cast it in racial terms, a framing both Austin Metcalf's father and prosecutors rejected.