After a Year of Controversy, Karmelo Anthony Goes on Trial
A GiveSendGo fundraiser for Anthony’s defense raised more than $600,000. A family spokesperson called it a fight against “white supremacy.”
Karmelo Anthony is on trial for murder in Collin County. It has been more than a year since Anthony, then 17, stabbed Austin Metcalf at a Frisco ISD track meet, and the case that briefly consumed national attention is finally before a jury.
The basic outline of what happened on April 2, 2025, is largely undisputed. Anthony, attending a different school, walked into the Memorial High School team tent at Kuykendall Stadium during a district meet. Metcalf told him to leave. Anthony refused. He warned Metcalf, “Touch me and see what happens,” then pulled a knife from his backpack and drove it into Metcalf’s chest. Metcalf died at the hospital. When police reached Anthony at the scene, he didn’t wait to be asked. “I’m not alleged, I did it,” he said. Now 19, Anthony has pleaded not guilty and says he was acting in self-defense.
Before the trial ever began, the case had already become something else entirely. A GiveSendGo fundraiser for Anthony’s defense raised more than $600,000. A family spokesperson called it a fight against “white supremacy.”
The family used donated money to rent a home in a gated Frisco community and purchase new vehicles. At the same time, Anthony’s father told a court he was the sole breadwinner and could not afford the original $1 million bond. The bond was later reduced to $250,000. After a grand jury indicted Anthony in June 2025, he filed an indigent packet requesting a court-appointed attorney on the grounds that he was financially destitute.
Jury selection was its own ordeal. The pool started at 589. The prosecution struck every qualified black juror, arguing the strikes were race-neutral. The defense objected, but the judge allowed the strikes to stand.
The final jury, 12 members and six alternates, contains no black jurors. Several prospective jurors were dismissed after admitting they could not bring themselves to sentence someone Anthony’s age to life in prison. “I don’t think I can make a decision about somebody so young,” one told prosecutors. Another was more direct: “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail.”
Three days of testimony have now come in. Witness after witness has described the same sequence of events. Anthony entered the tent uninvited. He refused to leave when asked repeatedly. He grew more aggressive, not less. He kept one hand inside his backpack and told Metcalf not to touch him. When Metcalf finally pushed him on the shoulders to move him out, Anthony stabbed him. One witness, asked point-blank whether that was self-defense, put it simply:
“No. That’s lethal force against non-lethal force.”
Memorial head track coach Rob Starr testified that Anthony told him moments after the stabbing:
“He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.”
The surveillance video has also become a point of dispute in the case. Anthony’s supporters spent the past year insisting the footage proved he was attacked. It was played in open court during opening statements. The video analyst who enhanced it acknowledged under cross-examination that the footage does not clearly show what happened under the tent and that he cannot determine from it when or whether an argument even began.
For its part, the defense has tried to reframe Anthony as a small, frightened teenager making a split-second call. Lead attorney Mike Howard noted Anthony stands 5’8″ and weighs about 130 pounds, while Metcalf and his twin brother Hunter are both described as 6’1″ and roughly 215 pounds. Howard told the jury that Anthony acted out of fear after Metcalf made the first physical contact.
Anthony’s possession of knives has surfaced previously in reporting surrounding the case. Frisco ISD barred him from participating in graduation ceremonies following an earlier disciplinary incident involving a knife, though he was permitted to receive his diploma.
Outside the courthouse, things have been ugly. Supporters of Anthony have screamed racial slurs at counter-protesters. One was recorded saying, “The only good cracker is a dead cracker.” A sniper threat against the Metcalf family was reported during the first week of proceedings.
Judge John Roach has banned livestreaming, recording, and cellphones inside the courtroom, with protests confined to designated areas.
Anthony faces 5 to 99 years or life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder. Testimony continues into next week.
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“Anthony’s possession of knives has surfaced previously in reporting surrounding the case. ”
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I just read that…he was under suspension for having a knife at school and shouldn’t have been at the track meet. Don’t recall if this was mentioned by the prosecution; perhaps judge prohibited it to be introduced into the trial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_QBCLhEcg Anthony Branca has good analysis of the trial so far.
Tribal affinity, misplaced grievances, and a genetic compulsion for stealing.
“But they was kangs!!”
It’s not a genetic compulsion.
It’s entirely cultural.
Regardless, the national fatigue grows daily.
“The only good cracker is a dead cracker.”
Really? If it’s a race war they want, killing “crackers” is a great way to start one.
They never hear the “crack.”
They smoke it.
As strong as the case against Anthony may be, I am doubtful 12 of 12 vote guilty in the current conglomerate once called culture.
I’m cynical enough to think at least some jury members are thinking about riots. Others are thinking that once they are dismissed after the trial they will be stalked by the media and doxxed at best, or have remote trucks parked in front of their houses, quota-hire reporters standing in front of their homes with microphones doing reporting like, “I am in front of the home of one juror, John Smith, here at 1234 Elm Street here in Frisco…”.
Riots in Texas? Good luck with that.
Another of Barry’s sons kills premeditatedly. He ought to be strung up by his bootstraps with his racist supporters right next to him.
A family spokesperson called it a fight against “white supremacy.”
Apparently, acting civilized is denigrated as “white supremacy.”
You nailed one aspect. I remember another aspect of “white supremacy” from when I lived in the DFW area 30+ years ago. A young woman of color who attended Carter High School, a majority black school, was accused of being an “oreo” (black on the outside, white on the inside) by the other black students because she was a straight A student. So being smart and educated is “white supremacy”.
She probably spoke with the local accent rather than “yo mo-fo ah ax yoo uh queshun!”
Well, the Smithsonian has officially documented that.
Why did Anthony think he was allowed to sit in the team tent of a team from another high school? And when he did be belligerent when asked to leave? And why did he bring a knife where they are prohibited? Things don’t add up.
He was supposed to be at school. He was intended. He wasn’t supposed to be in the other teams tent. He was asked to leave 15 times. He came with a knife looking for trouble and he found it.
Found it?!? More like instigated it.
Anthony was not a competing athlete at the track meet. He was there only as a spectator.
Furthermore, he did not just step in out of the rain; he went to the very center of the tent and sat down next to Frisco team’s belongings.
Witnesses noted that a stranger sitting knee-to-knee with their gear immediately triggered alarms.
By Anthony choosing to sit right next to the team’s valuables, the state argued that his presence was an intentional, hostile provocation designed to force a confrontation.
Any implied “right to be there” vanished the moment the students who controlled the space asked him to leave.
I really should proofread my responses.
He was NOT supposed to be at school. That he was there was intentional.
“A family spokesperson called it a fight against “white supremacy.””
Considering the allegations and how the family has behaved in the aftermath of the murder, I can’t say I disagree with their underlying premise.
A question I’m asking is: will the poh-leece stand there and do nothing like they did in the Floyd riots that are bound to break out?
It doesn’t matter to the potential rioters. Because as long as there’s fear of it, the jurors will “do the right thing.” OK, actually, the left thing.
In that comment, I wasn’t thinking of what the jurors will do. I’m more thinking what alleged law enforcement will do after the verdict.
“…the defense has tried to reframe Anthony as a small, frightened teenager…”
Ah, yes. The ol’ dindu nuffin defense.
“You see, your honor, this future valedictorian who always helps little ol’ ladies to cross the street was so frightened of these two, big, imposing, obvious white supremacist teens who hate all black people that poor lil Anthony entered their team tent uninvited and stayed even after repeated requests that Anthony leave.
He’s obviously the victim, your honor, so even if the knife was swift, you must acquit because lil Anthony dindu nuffin!”
So tired of these people. So tired…
It’s still amid controversy.
And it really shouldn’t be.
Having been a juror in a murder trial before I expect that there will be at least 1 liberal juror that will be very reluctant to send Anthony to prison regardless of the evidence.
Hopefully, the other jurors will be able to convince him or her that failing to convict is morally wrong.
If the jury is out more than two days, I would bet that it is due to that one hold out who really doesn’t care about the evidence but just opposes sending criminals to prison.
That juror will be thinking “The other boy is already dead and this will ruin poor Karmelo’s life”.
It is the logic of people who can’t feel sorrow for people that are not directly in front of them.
Honestly, I could even see this if there was a show of remorse and clear taking of responsibility but that doesn’t and will, in this case, never likely exist. He still clearly thinks he did nothing wrong and everyone around him is telling him the same.
I saw a report that at least some white female potential jurors were talking about how he’s just a kid and he needs help not prison. They didn’t make the jury thankfully.
AWFULs. Add another civic responsibility they should be banned from – jury duty,
There is no patriarchy as they constantly blather but there should be one for all our sakes.
Rational, sane and morally upright people of all races are tired of violent and belligerent black sociopaths attacking or murdering people without a scintilla of legal justification, and being turned into martyrs or heroes.
I’m tired of the sociopaths of every color.
By the way, any first-year law school student knows that the farcical and offensive “self-defense” claim fails, utterly.
A self-defense response must be proportionate to the force being defended against. Using a knife to respond to being grabbed or pushed on the shoulder — even by a larger man, in a clearly non-life-threatening context/dispute, is clearly not a proportionate response, and represents illegal deadly force and a decided and unjustified escalation.
One supposes that if vile narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, had another son in addition to St. Trayvon of the Blessed Skittles, he would look like this murderous sociopath and piece of excrement, Karmelo Anthony.
This is true, but not relevant here, because Metcalf’s use of force appears to have been lawful, and there is no right of self defense against a lawful use of force.
With the caveat that I’m not blaming the murder victim, here, the lesson to be drawn from this crime is that if you encounter a belligerent, unreasonable and sociopathic black person, and, assuming that your life or other people’s lives aren’t being threatened, contact security and/or the police, to have them deal with him/her. It’s not worth the personal and legal risks, to deal with these thugs, personally.
Unless, of course, you are in GB, in which case don’t waste the phone call.
Or DC. Or Chi.
Wow you actually managed to type several comments in a row without your stupid “vile Dhimmi-crat…” spiel that you repeat ad nauseam like some retarded corporate logo or trademark catch phrase. Congratulations.
“vile Dhimmi-crat…”
Too bad the shoe usually fits, Sweetie.
Hey, Donna — get stuffed, you vile and stupid piece of excrement. Fuck “Submission,” and fuck all Dhimmi-crats. You’re a useful idiot apologist for Jew-hating communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crats. Go suck off and service the Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crats, whom you love so much.
The Dhimmi-crat Party has gleefully embraced goose-stepping Islamofascism/Muslim supremacism and its attendant, rabid and dishonest Jew-hate and anti-Israel venom — you’re incapable of acknowledging that salient fact.
You’re miffed that I’m calling a spade a spade — “Dhimmi-crat” is this evil party’s accurate and factual moniker.
What’s revealing is that you take moronic offense at that phrase, but can summon no opprobrium with regard to the rabid Jew-hate that actually gives rise to that moniker; that’s revealing about both your manifest stupidity and your moral bankruptcy.
Yeah, you’re a dim-witted and hypocritical fool. Fuck you.
Yeah, “Dhimmi-crat,” “Dhimmi-crat,” “Dhimmi-crat” — oh, no, the idiot, Donna Changstein, is offended by that accurate moniker! It offends her delicate sensibilities! But, she’s not offended by the communist/Isamofascist/Musim supremacist Dhimmi-crats’ rabid and unabashed Jew-hate.
“Retarded,” you stupid wanker? Take a look in the mirror, you daft cunt, if you can spare a minute from sucking off Dhimmi-crats.
AWFUL in the house.
Got to love how these unknown characters always seem to pop up out of the woodwork,
“A GiveSendGo fundraiser for Anthony’s defense raised more than $600,000. A family spokesperson called it a fight against “white supremacy.”
“GiveSendGo — Because AWFLs Will Believe Anything!™
Well, ‘anything’ except the possibility they are wrong.
Anthony’s defense? Bullshit! It’s the Anthony family grift,
The defense arguments demonstrate what a farce this whole case is.
The facts aren’t even in contention. Karmelo was where he wasn’t supposed to be. They told him to leave, he wouldn’t leave, Metcalf grabbed his shoulder, Karmelo stabbed him in the heart and killed him.
Their only attempt at a defense is ‘well he FELT threatened!’
And even if it were true he ‘acted out of fear’ (and his entire attitude and actions prior to that demonstrate otherwise), ‘acting out of fear’ doesn’t mean you get to just stab teenagers in the heart.
Their only hope now that no tribal racists got onto the jury is that there is at least one hardcore leftist that simply refuses to convict regardless of evidence.
Yes, to justify self-defense, fear must not only be subjectively felt, it must be objectively reasonable.
I think his defense team knows the odds are against them. I think they are maneuvering so when it comes time to sentencing Karmelo gets as little time as possible.
He faces 5 to 99 years in prison OR life imprisonment. If he got life he’d have a chance at parole after at least 30 years. He can’t get death or life without parole because he was a minor.
I think he gets 20 to 30 years years. I can see the waterworks at his sentencing already. He’s not getting life.
The little turd is going to be very popular in prison.
It’s truly brain breaking just how stupid Karmelo supporters are.
Honestly it’s a good demonstration of how incompatible the so-called ‘black community’ is with society.
Go to X and go through literally any thread about it.
In the minds of his supporters, Metcalf ‘putting hands on him’ justified it (even though the alleged ‘putting hands on’ was grabbing his shoulder).
They are THAT stupid and violent. They think that means it was justified and it was self-defense. Somebody disrespecting you and ‘putting hands on you’ means you can kill them.
And that’s why black men ~15-31 are not only the most likely to commit murder, but to BE murdered, too.
The way I see it, in the mind of Anthony and the minds of many of his supporters, that the white man challenged a proud young black man was unforgivable and that the white man continued to press him shamed said young black man to the p0int that he had to “defend” his “honor”.
And that attitude is pervasive in other communities that believe they are oppressed by “the Man”. Being confronted and challenged by “the Man”, in their minds, can only eventually lead to violence. It’s just too shameful and cowardly not to react that way. And that attitude is completely understood by their community as a whole, hence the complete support of the “self-defense” lie.
“Honor culture” is one of the things that Thomas Sowell notes when he says the black inner city culture is derived from the redneck culture. And he means “redneck” in its original usage (Appalachian Scots-Irish), not just its current connotation of “hick that accomplishes things.”
(“Black Rednecks and White Liberals”)
Just as Little Saint Trayvon was supposedly justified in trying to murder George Zimmerman, because he dared to follow him.
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is the fact that his knife was a folding knife but was unfolded when he pulled it out of the bag. Why would anyone carry a folding knife open? To me that means that he wanted it to be ready instantly if needed. From reading about cases such as this it appears that using lethal force against a person attacking you, with non-lethal force can only come after you have been harmed and have no escape, Not just fear for your life. Also, I have not read the reason he would not leave the tent after several people asked him to leave. I would think that would lead to motive if I was the prosecutor.
The popular mantra now is “We don’t have a race problem, we have a problem race”.
Problem culture more like.and elements of it are.spreading. The sense of entitlement to act free from consequences, to demand the world around them bend to their will is visible in countless videos of LEO interactions. Watch a few hours of body cam videos and the pattern becomes very recognizable and seems ubiquitous across ‘race/tribe’ often younger ‘white’ Women are very belligerent/aggressive kicking, spitting, punching refusing to comply or submit to arrest.
“A small, frighened teenager…” WTF? Imagine what this farce is like for the Metcalf family. Utterly sickening.
It’s worse than that. Metcalf’s use of force was justified. He was using very reasonable force to try to remove a trespasser who had been repeatedly ordered to leave and refused. So Anthony would not have been justified in using any level of force to resist, let alone deadly force. Even mildly pushing back would have been a criminal assault. He had no right of self-defense in that situation unless the force used against him rose beyond what was necessary to remove him, and all the evidence seems to show that it didn’t.
If only Anthony had been aware of this fine nuance, I am quite sure that this tragedy could have been avoided.
Anthony was a member of the Centennial High School track team. Metcalf was a member of the Memorial High School track team.
This was during a track meet so the two were legally on the field.
Testimony has shown that the teams set up tents that traditionally have been used by the individual teams.
While there are rules as to who can be on the track, there were no rules as to where a member of a track team could sit – even to sitting in an area covered by another team’s tent.
This is not like football, baseball, basketball, etc,, where there are designated areas for the teams.
Anthony was not “trespassing.”
It is stupid to try and sit in an area that traditionally been designated for use by another team. But however stupid it may be, it is not against the rules.
In short, this was not a trespassing case, but a turf war. It was no different then gangs on the streets saying this “block is ours” even though anyone can go through the block.
You claim that the use of force could not be justified because there was a “legal” order to leave, even though there was no trespassing and therefore no “legal” order to leave.
This was a classic turf war and someone claiming “you ain’t the boss of me.”
The fact that Anthony used disproportional force and had the knife at the ready despite being suspended for having a knife and the knife itself being illegal on campus seems to make him guilty. (I say “seems to” because the defense has not presented their case yet.)
This was a classic turf war and someone claiming “you ain’t the boss of me.”
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you left out a couple of things–anthony CONCEALED the weapon–seriously doubt the outcome would have been the same if anthony were carrying the weapon openly, in view of the cops / security staff–to me, that indicates planning / intent–secondly, anthony stabbed the victim in the heart (virtually a fatal strike from any edged weapon) instead of in the arms / shoulder / hands as in some frantic effort to fend off an attack–that, to me, indicates deliberate / intended fatal injury–anthony went there with the premeditated intent to seriously injure / kill someone–whatever that is, is damn sure not self defense
I am not sure what you mean.
I noted the knife should not have been on campus and not in his possession.
I have not seen or read any testimony that indicated that Anthony went to the track meet with premeditation to harm, much less kill someone.
My main point was against Millhouse’s point that Anthony was somehow “trespassing” which would be an illegal act. Anthony was not trespassing. He was located in a space that was “traditionally” claimed by other teams.
Metcalf was trying to “defend” that space, which is perfectly understandable. Anthony, on the other hand, was doing the “you ain’t the boss of me……you can’t tell me where to go.”
I truly believe that if anyone had approached Anthony anywhere (on campus or off) and told to move, he would have pulled the knife and used it. That attitude is not indicative of self-defense. Neither is it indicative of premeditation of intent to specifically kill Metcalf.
If Anthony wanted to act the part of a tough guy, he has to deal with the consequences of his illegal acts.
Its more than just the tent…. the area was for storage of team and personal property. Some one not related to the owners was demanding to be close to all of this. Does it mean the Anthony was a crook… to avoid that consideration is asking him to leave. That he didn’t …. well…. here we have the tough guy using his protected privilege. “Courtesy” was never in his vocabulary. The issue includes racial…. but as for racist… I’d have to brand the killer as that.
I am not sure that I would call it “protected privilege,” but I agree with your point.
The correct response from Anthony should have been something along the lines of “sorry…..I’m just sitting here to stay out of the rain.”
That would have been the courteous and right thing to do.
Instead he went into “make me” and “you’re not the boss of me” mode.
I will say this, I have been on fields (as an official) where there has been rain and generally speaking, competitors get along well as the sport brings them together. The fact that Metcalf felt he had to be more forceful and Anthony still didn’t respect the space says to me that Anthony was immature and a person that no one could ever tell him or ask him to do anything.
The ground on which the tent was pitched may not have belonged to Memorial, but who owned the tent itself? Surely Memorial did, and that makes Anthony a trespasser. If I erect a tent on public land, with the appropriate permission, surely I have the right to exclude trespassers from it.
Milhouse | June 7, 2026 at 10:23 am
“It’s worse than that. Metcalf’s use of force was justified. He was using very reasonable force to try to remove a trespasser who had been repeatedly ordered to leave and refused.”
That is interesting especially since I was not aware of the sanctity of the Team tent in HS and College track along with being a serious violation of track/team etiquitte. Apparently a very serious violation. Its effectively the teams locker room.
Probably the reason I was surprised is it is fairly common in HS swimming to converse and mingle with your competitors at swim meets. I also compete in adult bicycle racing and it is very common to commingle extensively with your competitors.
That being said, given the serious ethical/etiquette violation to be in an opposing teams tent, the effort to remove him was entirely reasonable and polite (at least initially).
More importantly than whether Metcalf’s use of force was justified, if this really were a trespass situation, Anthony cannot claim self-defense if he were in the commission of a crime. One of the elements of a self-defense claim is innocence. If you provoked the “force” against you with an illegal act, you cannot then claim self-defense.
I think I agree with the others, though, that he was not technically trespassing. He was harassing those folks by being in their tent and sitting right next to their gear, though – IMO.
is a shame one of the team members, in close proximity to the victim, who actually DID have a valid justification for self defense after the stabbing, didn’t put this little hood rat down
A black teammate of Metcaff did chase after him & said “ he just killed my brother “ . He may have been the one that first caught up to Anthony after the assault
The only reasonable outcome for this thug is “Burn baby burn”, to quote HIS culture.
Striking down every black juror was a tactical error on the prosecution’s part, unless they are trying to throw the trial.
Having at least one black juror voting to convict would alleviate any potential feeling of white guilt that might raise its ugly head in the remaining jurors.
Now, they all have to concerned that any guilty finding will be cast in the “all white jury agreed” light.
There’s no way defense didn’t file a Batson challenge given that every black juror was struck. If it was denied, a judge agreed that the prosecution had extremely good reasons for striking each one.
The last three remaining black available jurors were also teachers. The reason given for striking those was that being teachers, they were much more likely to be tolerant of the bad behavior.
Teachers as a profession are overwhelmingly leftist democrats, which as a rule are pro dei, pro critical race theory, etc.
Further, during voi dure, the defense questions included how did the prospective juror feel about ICE and immigration enforcement. He was clearly looking for democrats on the panel
My personal take is that the lack of black jurors survives a Baston Challenge.
They had specific reason for striking every single one – because every single one said basically “I won’t convict him, no matter what.”
You don’t know Collin County, or the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals very well, do you?
They missed the line about needing to be civilized in order to be a part of civilization. Lord of the Flies is playing out in pretty much every large urban area.
home boy is toast–probably why no noise from crump / sharpton and the grifter brigade
The trial is a mockery. Some idiots yelling “the only good cracka is a dead cracka” hoping for a jury nullification or a race riot. In Collin County, Texas? Not likely
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