The final, devastating moments of Austin Metcalf’s life were captured in two newly released 911 calls made moments after he was stabbed by Karmelo Anthony during a Texas track meet.
The emotional recordings show the frantic efforts of Metcalf’s coaches to keep the teenager awake, with one pleading for him to “fight through” as they waited for help to arrive.
Metcalf, 17, was fatally stabbed by Anthony, 19, at the athletics event in Frisco on April 2, 2025.
In one of the emergency calls, a friend who identifies himself as Mason can be heard telling dispatchers, “My friend is bleeding everywhere!”
The 911 recordings were presented to jurors during Anthony’s murder trial, which ended earlier this week with his conviction and a 35-year prison sentence.
A judge unsealed the recordings Friday alongside a collection of other evidence, including security video that prosecutors said showed Anthony trying to leave the stands as Metcalf lay mortally wounded.
In another clip, Metcalf’s coach Robert Thayer can be heard frantically begging for paramedics to get to David Kuykendall Stadium to help the stricken teen.
‘We have an army veteran trying to keep compression on the wound,’ Thayer tells a 911 dispatcher. ‘He [Metcalf] is laying here, he’s starting to go unconscious.’
The final moments of Austin Metcalf (pictured) have been captured in harrowing 911 calls
The calls both describe the stabbing of Metcalf by Karmelo Anthony on April 2, 2025
As he continues to give details about Metcalf’s condition, Liberty High School football coach Joshua Rebmann is heard repeatedly shouting: ‘Stay with me Austin, stay with me.’
The operator then asks if they know any details about the assailant but Thayer says: ‘We have no idea, everybody just took off afterwards. There’s a lot of blood, he’s not breathing.’
In the background Rebmann is heard shouting: ‘Stay with me, you’re alright. Come on.’
The dispatcher then attempts to coach Thayer through administering first aid to try and stop the bleeding.
The operator instructs him to press down on the wound firmly, warning it is likely to hurt Metcalf.
Thayer tells her that they are attempting CPR and giving him mouth to mouth before EMS arrives on the scene. Tragically their efforts were unsuccessful and Metcalf died in the arms of his twin brother who was also at the track meet.
Meanwhile in a separate call, Mason is heard telling the operator: ‘My friend just got stabbed!’
He then describes Anthony as ‘wearing a grey essential hoodie, he’s black, he’s standing on the track right now.’
Anthony is caught on video effectively admitting to having killed Metcalf in new footage released Friday which showed him attempting to flee after the stabbing
The Memorial High School tent where Metcalf was stabbed during a track meet in Frisco, Texas
The boy is unsure of what his friend was stabbed with but pleads for help: ‘I don’t know, my friend’s bleeding everywhere!’
He believed at the time that coaches had Anthony subdued.
The audio was released alongside a massive tranche of videos and photos from the case by a federal judge, including gruesome photographs and enhanced security footage of the moments before and after the stabbing.
A video shows movement under the Memorial High School athletes’ tent at the meet before Anthony is seen running away.
In another clip, Anthony is seen being apprehended by a local police officer who speaks into his radio confirming that he’s ‘got the alleged suspect.’
‘I’m not alleged, I did it,’ replies Anthony, as he is detained by law enforcement.
The public has also been shown the knife involved in the stabbing, as well as blood soaked clothing worn by Metcalf and the deep stab wound in his chest.
The murder case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding the killing of a white teenager by a black peer quickly became racially fraught.
Both calls describe Anthony’s attempt to get away from the Memorial tent after the stabbing
Photos of the murder weapon were released by the federal judge on Friday
During the trial, Anthony and his legal team claimed he stabbed Metcalf in an act of self-defense after they got into a confrontation during a rain delay at the sporting event.
Metcalf called out Anthony for standing under a tent that did not belong to his school, the Frisco Police Department said.
But prosecutors eviscerated Anthony’s self-defense claim that Metcalf attacked him first with video evidence and witness testimony.
Witnesses who were in the tent described Anthony as the aggressor, testifying that Anthony told Metcalf: ‘Touch me and see what happens,’ provoking Metcalf to push Anthony, who then pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest.
Prosecutors said Metcalf’s twin brother, Hunter, rushed to his aid as Anthony ran from the scene and later tried to blend into groups of kids who were exiting the stadium.
Anthony sat motionless in court as police body camera footage from the track meet showed Hunter pleading for help after the stabbing.
Jurors then gasped in horror after being shown never-before-seen photos of Metcalf’s punctured heart during the trial.
Metcalf was stabbed once, with the knife piercing through his bone in the center of his chest and puncturing the right side of his heart, a medical examiner testified.
Coach Rebmann’s bloodied jacket after he attempted to administer first aid is pictured
Anthony is now set to serve 35 years in prison for the killing
Still, while cross-examining the medical examiner, Anthony’s lawyers implied that Metcalf impaled himself on the knife.
He had originally faced between five to 99 years in prison for the murder, but prosecutors agreed to allow the jury to consider ‘sudden passion’ as a factor when determining his sentence.
‘Sudden passion’ is a legal term in Texas that allows a criminal to argue they were in an intense emotional state when they committed wrongdoing.
It would have reduced Anthony’s sentence to that of a second-degree felony for which he could have served as little as two years behind bars.
However, the jury rejected the argument and spent less than three hours passing its guilty verdict, and another roughly two and a half hours before they handed down their sentence.
Anthony will now have to serve at least half of the sentence before he is eligible for parole.
The teenage killer filed a notice of appeal less than 24 hours after he learned his fate for fatally stabbing Metcalf in the heart.
‘We believe there are several important issues for the appellate courts to consider. An appeal is the next part of the legal process and a right afforded every American,’ his lawyer, Mike Howard, previously told TMZ.
