Jeff Metcalf Speaks After 35-Year Sentence for Son's Killer, Vows to Fight Parole in 17 Years
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Updated · CBS New York · Jun 11
Jeff Metcalf Speaks After 35-Year Sentence for Son's Killer, Vows to Fight Parole in 17 Years
3 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Jun 11
Summary
Jeff Metcalf said the 35-year sentence for 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony brought him his first sense of peace in 14 months, after a gag order had kept him from speaking publicly during the trial.
Anthony was convicted Tuesday in the 2025 stabbing death of Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet, a killing Jeff Metcalf said was made even more devastating by body-camera audio of Austin's twin brother, Hunter.
Metcalf said no prison term could satisfy him and that he wanted a life sentence; if Anthony becomes eligible for parole in 17 years, he said he will oppose release in person or by recorded video.
Death threats, doxing and swatting have compounded the family's ordeal, while Metcalf rejected claims the case was about race and said online attacks had wrongly vilified his son.
Forgiveness, Metcalf said, is part of a long healing process already underway through memories of Austin and a scholarship in his name, but it does not mean forgetting the killing.