The dad of a teen who was stabbed to death at a track meet has spoken out after being thrown out of a press conference with the alleged killer's family.
Seventeen-year-old Austin Metcalf was fatally stabbed in the chest on April 2 at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
The alleged attacker was another teen, Karmelo Anthony, who now faces a first-degree murder charge.
The violence reportedly erupted during a rain delay at the event, when Anthony took shelter under a pop-up tent belonging to Austin’s team. According to Austin’s twin brother, Hunter, that’s when tensions ignited.
“We asked him to move. He started getting aggressive and talking reckless,” Hunter told reporters.
When Austin stepped in, things turned deadly. “He put his hands on me,” Anthony later admitted to police, according to an arrest affidavit. “I was protecting myself.” But what came next stunned everyone: “I’m not alleged, I did it,” Anthony confessed.
Hunter tried to save his brother, but the stab wound to the heart was too severe. Austin was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly after.
“He was holding the wound. He was trying to save his brother,” their mother, Meghan Metcalf, recalled.
“Just doesn’t make any sense,” she added. “Just because the kid was mad, my son is not here anymore, and I don’t understand it.”
Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, described him as “a bright young man with a great future ahead of him. His smile would light up the room. His passion for football was unbelievable.”
Last week, tensions exploded in real life when Jeff Metcalf showed up at a press conference organized by the accused killer’s family in Dallas - only to be thrown out by police.
Anthony had just been released from jail and placed on house arrest when his family held the event, which was meant to address “lies and false accusations,” according to his mother, Kala Hayes.
Speaking through tears, Hayes said the past week had “put my family in danger.”
But before she could say more, the proceedings were interrupted when Jeff Metcalf arrived uninvited - hoping to pray with the Anthonys and call for unity. That’s not how it played out.
“They should have pulled me up [to the front] and said, ‘We are so sorry. Our condolences,’” Metcalf told The New York Post. “The only thing I would have said was, ‘Okay, can we pray together and show the world we’re united.’”
Instead, he was told to leave. “I get a text. My phone’s blowing up. It’s the f**king DA. He said, ‘Jeff, leave! Leave! Leave!’ My ex wife texts me: ‘Leave, leave, leave!’ They’ll call the cops if I don’t get the f*** out of there,” he recalled.
Soon after, Dallas police escorted him from the building.
Activist Dominique Alexander, with Next Generation Action Network, later slammed Metcalf’s presence as “a disrespect to the dignity of his son.”
Metcalf fired back: “After I leave, that Dominique … just gaslights to s*** out of me. Says I’m disrespecting, I’m so disrespectful, I’m disrespecting the dignity of my son by showing up … and I’m just like whatever, dude. My character’s been assassinated. Or they’ve tried to assassinate my character.”