Posted on 06/09/2026 12:47:41 PM PDT by Morgana
Killer Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet.
Anthony, now 19, sobbed, and his family burst into tears as the judge read the verdict on Tuesday.
The jury deliberated for less than three hours after the defense and prosecution delivered closing arguments.
Anthony claimed he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Metcalf, 17, with a folding knife after a heated argument at the high school event in Frisco in April 2025.
The case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding it quickly became racially fraught.
During closing arguments, prosecutors eviscerated Anthony's self-defense claim and encouraged jurors to find him guilty of murder.
'What is important is not motive. It's mindset. Mindset. He took a knife to a track meet,' Collin County First Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye said.
'[Anthony] of course, felt empowered that he was going to come out on top of any encounter. You don't get to meet a shove with a stab, especially if you provoke the shove.'
Wirskye added, 'Why didn't he just walk away. He could have left the tent at any time. He didn't. He didn't abandon the encounter.'
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This. Good post.
It sends a strong message to the rest of Texas and to the countr. There are consequences to those who cannot control their emotions. Be civil and have the right decorum in public
I don’t think there will be any That only applies to when police whip up on the ghetto type black folk and one of them dies mainly because he was on meth probably fentanyl now Rodney King he was high also he just got a plain **** whoopin
I wish we could have but it wasn’t televised.
This guy should at least get 40 years. He is a danger if he gets out too soon because even after 20 years he won’t be 40 yet.
If you’re gonna do your killing of what folks are black folks for that matter you need to do it in a blue blue city not a Ruby red county big house Is next in Line
Thanks for the update. I wonder how long it will take to for them to start looting.
Jury was out almost three hours. What took them so long?
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Lunch.
Think about this....
#KarmeloAnthony only had his mother stand up and beg for mercy. No coaches. No teachers. No administrators. No clergy. No neighbors. No friends. No aunts, uncles....grandparents.
This “4.0 student” had nobody but his mother to plead for leniency.
That speaks volumes.
He’ll be crying a lot harder when he goes to prison and becomes some bad mans boyfriend.
Murder you have to intent to kill. That was the element to attack.
Great point!! I take it the little bastard didn’t take the stand in his own defense. I wonder when it comes to his sentencing hearing, who will stand up and beg for mercy then.
Jury has made a decision on the sentence. Should be announced after 7:10pm central.
He could have spoken himself, apologizing to the family and expressing deep sympathy and sorrow for his crime, and begging the jury to give him mercy.
We’ll know soon, and I hope they give him life.
Lube? Why? Prison is punishment.
Oh look. Guilty of murder.
The jury wimped out, 35 years, out in half that.
We’re not a serious country.
I’m happy to serve on a jury. I have considered volunteering to serve in our county since I’m retired and have free time.
Once, I got kicked off during voir dire. It was a DWI case. The defendant’s attorney asked if I thought there was any reason when it would be OK for someone to drive drunk. I said no.
I guess they’re used to people trying to “get off”, so it was clear they didn’t believe me. They pushed it, and I said our family is totally opposed to it. The guy continued to push and said basically to prove it.
“My husband was president of MADD for 10 years in Xxxxx (I named the state). I was GONE!!
Once I was on a Coroner’s Jury, declaring a family legally dead after a boating accident.
That was a tough one — sad.
He will be fine. He will walk in to GP like a celebrated warrior going in to Valhalla. He killed a white boy for no reason. He’ll be given a high status among the black gangs.
WTF? What answer did he expect? Who, exactly, would ever say "yes"???
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