This is outrageous.
Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison after a jury convicted him of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf.
19-year-old Karmelo Anthony will be eligible for parole after half time served.
He was facing 99 years in prison.
16-year-old track and football star Austin Metcalf was brutally stabbed to death by Karmelo Anthony in April 2025 during a championship track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
Numerous eyewitnesses testified that Karmelo Anthony was the aggressor and instigated the fight.
Austin Metcalf’s father unloaded on Karmelo Anthony:
“We were robbed, don’t look down, of all of these things.”
“I said from day one, this was never about race, please don’t politicize it. But what did you choose to do, both. It’s about right and wrong. We’re all humans. We all bleed the same color.
“You’re free to make choices all you want, but you’re not free from those consequences. You will face those consequences starting today.”
“People think that grief is sadness but its not. IT”S RAGE!!! (slamming his hands on the table.) Pure unfiltered rage,’ he shouts.
“You failed your parents, your failed yourself and you failed society, You don’t belong in this community,” he says to Karmelo.
“You’re going to prison, You can’t even look me in the eyes right now but you can stab my fu**ing son in the heart.”
Hellbound and Down 