Dad of teen accused of fatally stabbing
Texas football star Austin Metcalf says
son ‘was not the aggressor’
New York Post,
by
Jared Downing
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/4/2025 2:41:45 AM
The father of a Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing a football star from a rival school over a seat at the stadium says his son is a “good kid” who was provoked to violence.
“Everyone has already made their assumptions about my son, but he’s not what they’re making him out to be,” Andrew Anthony told The Post.
Karmelo Anthony, 17, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet, leaving him to die in his twin brother’s arms.
“He’s a good kid. He works two jobs. He’s an A student, has a 3.7 GPA,” the heartbroken dad said.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JonR 4/4/2025 2:52:40 AM (No. 1926406)
With a parent like this man, there’s no doubt why the kid is a feral mess! The same excuses every time!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sw penn 4/4/2025 4:32:28 AM (No. 1926411)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was a good kid.
With a good knife...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
judy 4/4/2025 4:58:41 AM (No. 1926414)
Wow ...a good kid who stabbed someone? Unreal!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 4/4/2025 5:24:30 AM (No. 1926418)
Just another example in a depressingly long line of America’s biggest social problem: Blackmail
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/4/2025 5:27:51 AM (No. 1926420)
Good kids don't feel the need to carry a knife to a school function - let alone use it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/4/2025 6:15:29 AM (No. 1926429)
The sleazy gob of SPIT brought a knife to a track meet! An "A" student in the school of infamy, this father is a complete ass, no wonder his son is such a criminal!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
govlawyer 4/4/2025 6:30:23 AM (No. 1926436)
Same argument made by parents of girl track runner who hit opponent with the baton.....and probably the same level of supervision at home that leads to the suprise and denial.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
offrope 4/4/2025 6:34:45 AM (No. 1926438)
Dindu nuffin.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 4/4/2025 6:48:50 AM (No. 1926443)
Nice kid you raised.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/4/2025 7:08:08 AM (No. 1926454)
FTA: The grieving father questioned Karmelo’s upbringing and parents as he forgave his son’s alleged killer. “I’m not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have? What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in the wrong place and they asked him to move and he bowed up [became angry and aggressive]. This is murder,” Jeff Metcalf said.
Karmelo obviously had a gangster upbringing from a gangster father who never learned right from wrong, and taught his son evil. That foolishness leads to death. Too bad legal justice can't be instant. This wanton murderer ought not live out the week. And he should never get out of prison.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/4/2025 7:26:21 AM (No. 1926463)
It's al part of the culture of the usual suspects.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
philsner 4/4/2025 7:48:15 AM (No. 1926470)
This is what the left has taught blacks. You are oppressed, so wear the t-shirt that says: "By any means necessary", and any action you take against your white "oppressor" is justified.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/4/2025 7:52:34 AM (No. 1926472)
Your son wasn't arrested because he has a 3.7 GPA, or for working two jobs, or because he's a "good kid". He was arrested and charged with murder for stabbing & killing someone. And what the hell was he doing with a knife at a track meet anyway?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/4/2025 7:54:32 AM (No. 1926473)
Dad forgot to mention that the kid was an altar boy. He looks like the sweet, innocent type, does he not? He obviously carried the knife to peel apples.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/4/2025 8:12:24 AM (No. 1926478)
Damning social media pics of the perp with an AK-lookalike, shooting the finger, the usual gangsta posing.
So yeah, dad, quit flapping your lips.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/4/2025 8:23:05 AM (No. 1926482)
All it would have taken to defuse the situation was one of them to be MAN ENOUGH to find another seat. Nope. Can't do that. Now one of them is dead over little or no provocation. They were both fools in my book (I would use a more accurate word but don't want to be banned). Let that be a lesson folks. There are people out there that aren't nice. They will kill you over nothing. Most of the time one walks by them and nothing happens, but unfortunately, sometimes someone ends up dead. it just takes a provocation, real or imagined.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cartcart 4/4/2025 8:25:29 AM (No. 1926483)
Who the heck brings a knife to a track meet?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
janjan 4/4/2025 8:37:35 AM (No. 1926491)
Good kids don’t carry knives around and stab someone in the chest over an argument. That takes a special kind of evil and hatred. Was this kid’s Dad even living in the same house?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/4/2025 8:44:54 AM (No. 1926492)
One wonders if Karmalo even knew his father and if his father was part of Karmelo's life. Great kid, sang in the church choir, straight A student, worked two jobs help little old ladies across the street sounds more like a prequel to a large lawsuit.
Or more like a dead beat dad sees an opportunity for a nice fat cash settlement knowing that grades will not be admissible and the two jobs were gang informant and dealer. One just wonders.
Of course we don't have all the facts and it may be possible what this dad says is true. But killing another human over a high school track meet seat will take some clever justifying. We'll see where the facts lead.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 4/4/2025 9:20:44 AM (No. 1926513)
Wow. #16 seems to think that at a public event, if someone is in your seat, you should run if someone claims your seat.
No, what happened here is that a gang banger snuck a knife into a track meet.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
kidsmom 4/4/2025 9:48:18 AM (No. 1926532)
I'm sorry, but I have to wonder: They have "assigned seating" at a high school track meet??? Karmelo was in the victim's seat?? Something is fishy here about the whole incident. Karmalo is a thug but the incident isn't what it's portrayed to be.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/4/2025 10:22:01 AM (No. 1926561)
Dad is a walking, talking cliché.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/4/2025 11:25:44 AM (No. 1926627)
No doubt Karmelo Anthony’s severe overreaction during the course of what should have been a minor incident was a culturally based overreaction, that Karmelo Anthony was ready to perpetrate at the drop of a hat, that’s why Karmelo Anthony had armed himself with such a knife while he attended a high school sporting event.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 4/4/2025 12:57:42 PM (No. 1926721)
Converting a high school disagreement into a knife murder, where the other person had no weapon and both were young fit males, it's clear who the murderer is.
Now if my mid70s wife, just over five feet tall is attacked by a vilent 18 year old male, it will be valid self defense for her to use her handgun because of what is known as "disparity of force".
But two late teen boys? Nope, any altercation there is, less weapons, a" fair fight", and pulling a knife is not any kind of legit self defense.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 4/4/2025 1:01:55 PM (No. 1926727)
Re #21, apparently, with many schools from all over the state, certain zones of the stands were assigned to certain schools. Not per seat, but 'this zone for ABC School'. And there was apparently some mixup about which zone one or the other was in.
But going to deadly force for a minor social friction like this is sign of a hair trigger violent sociopath. This guy needs to spend the rest of his life behind bars, because he WILL do it again.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/4/2025 1:51:36 PM (No. 1926782)
Don't read this reply! Re-read #25.
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