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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The prosecution did well, stuck to the facts.
Yeah, Boo frickin Hoo
I predict plywood flying off local store shelves every minute now.
Can I put that in X?
Gross - there should be no rape in prison. Why are these goons being given someone to abuse?
No black jurors because they all admitted they “couldn’t find a brother guilty,” so a Left-wing judge will emit an edict voiding the conviction.
I’ve just got word that Karmelo’s mom is crying in her seat in the courtroom.
i guess this time ‘it fit.’
That’s the time to hammer home the loss they have suffered.
That seems weird to me for the prosecution to not take advantage of that.
Perhaps the family has just had enough.
“No black jurors because they all admitted they “couldn’t find a brother guilty,””
No repeat of the OJ trial.
I’ve just got word that Karmelo’s mom is crying in her seat in the courtroom.
She’ll be crying all the way to the bank.
I’m wondering if they called the National Guard out?
He is going to find out the real reason for sagging pants.
Hit song in 1966.
96 Tears
by Question Mark and the Mysterians
Too many teardrops for one heart
To be cryin’
Too many teardrops for one heart
To carry on.
96 tears, c’mon, let me hear you cry, now
96 tears, ooh, I wanna hear you cry
Night and day, yeah, all night long
96 tears, cry-cry-cry
C’mon, baby, let me hear you cry now
All night long, 96 tears
Yeah, c’mon now, 96 tears.
The penalty phase is over with only 1 witness and 2 questions from defense and 1 from the prosecution
“Touch me and see what happens”. Betcha like Fred Flintstone, he’ll have a “gay old time*.
“She’ll be crying all the way to the bank.”
I’ve kept tabs on that. I wonder if now Karmelo is Guilty under the law, Austin’s dad can now sue that family in a civil court and get all that money?
This POS was social media posturing the gang banger thug lifestyle just like a million other wannabe thugs posturing on social media and Karmelo was just trying to keep it real
It will be a good thing for the rest of the social media wannabes to see one of their compadres go down hard when their thug life fantasy crosses the line to criminal reality
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