What We Know So Far About the Killing of Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony’s Case

Just weeks before Karmelo Anthony’s trial began, a group of extremists gathered at the Texas stadium where the fatal confrontation had taken place during a rain-soaked track meet. Anthony, who was 19 at the time, was charged in the killing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

In the lead-up to the trial, one local white supremacist attempted to draw Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, into a public spectacle. During a speakerphone call, the man asked whether Metcalf would appear beside him at a press conference to discuss what he described as an issue “larger than Austin at this point.”

Jeff Metcalf firmly rejected the request. He told the caller that he was “part of the f***ing problem” and accused him of deepening racial division rather than helping to heal it. Metcalf also made clear that he did not support or condone the extremist’s actions.

The exchange underscored the added burden placed on a grieving father, who was forced not only to mourn his son but also to fend off those seeking to exploit the tragedy for their own agenda.

Now, following Anthony’s conviction for murder and his sentencing on Tuesday to 35 years in prison, those same fringe voices have once again resurfaced.

Well, revoltingly, after Anthony’s murder conviction (and sentencing to 35 years in prison) on Tuesday, the ghouls are back in force.

Lame-duck loser, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett couldn’t resist hoisting herself on the attention-grabbing pig pile, seemingly suggesting she would’ve murdered Austin Metcalf too!

‘If a 300-pound man is beating me, like on top of me and beating me down, I’m not limited to fists,’ she said on her otherwise irrelevant podcast ‘Clock It with Crockett.’

A few things here, kitten: Metcalf was 6ft, 200 pounds. He was also not on top of the 5ft 11in, 160-pound Karmelo Anthony pummeling the snot out of him.

Put your finger in a socket, Crockett.

Here’s what actually happened.

Metcalf, according to a witness, approached Anthony, a rival athlete, who was sitting inside a tent for the Memorial High School (Anthony’s school didn’t have one).

The conversation became a confrontation, and a shove was answered by Anthony with a 5-inch partially serrated blade, plunged into Metcalf’s chest. A photo of Metcalf’s punctured heart – blown up to poster size – was shown to jurors.

The 17-year-old star athlete died right there, in the arms of his twin brother, whose cries for help were captured on first responders’ body cameras.

The whole thing is tragic. It was a nonsensical teenage beef that should’ve ended as quickly as it started.

Instead, two young lives were essentially lost; one permanently, one effectively.

Even Jeff Metcalf could despair for the sentence handed to his son’s killer. ‘I had a little bit of sorrow because I’m human. And that poor boy is fixing to experience a life that I would not wish upon anyone,’ he said.

But who needs humanity? Jazzy Crock-of-s**t wants to burn it all down, even implying that the lethal blade was only an inch-long (when it was actually just two inches shorter than the hunting knife Bryan Kohberger used to slaughter four Idaho co-eds).

‘I would argue the size of it alone, you wouldn’t even think it’s a deadly weapon,’ claimed Ms. Failed Forensics.

How did this yapping bobblehead ever graduate law school?

The knife killed someone, so it has become, by definition, a deadly weapon. But, hey, if there’s a chance to fumble facts and cast a murderous heel as a babyface then you know there will be more clowns popping off at this media circus.

Enter Cardi B. Hot off her chest-flashing NBA finals halftime show, she posted on X: ‘Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING… This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!’

Precisely. The example is DON’T STAB PEOPLE.

And speaking of ‘justice,’ listen to Metcalf’s mother who addressed Anthony in court: ‘You may have just been given a sentence of 35 years, you should feel lucky because I’ve been sentenced to a life without my son.’

Hot off her chest-flashing NBA finals halftime show, she posted on X: ‘Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING…This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!’

The loud and irrational want to use this sickening tragedy as a racial cudgel to further divide people by saying things like, ‘If their races were reversed, the white kid would never have been charged!’

That is, of course, an unprovable hypothetical, though predictably this racial poison appears to be spewing out into the public. 

There are reports of Anthony supporters falsely accusing white people of being jurors in the trial. In one case, now under investigation in Florida, a man was physically attacked.

But Anthony and Metcalf share far more similarities than people like Cardi B and Crockett would ever dare to acknowledge.

Both boys were talented athletes (Anthony in football in addition to track) and their lives were emulsified in a moment that has cratered both of their families.

The Metcalfs and Anthonys have been doxxed and targeted, followed and harassed and for as horrible as a guilty verdict feels for a kid who had the world on a string, it’s no victory for Austin’s twin brother Hunter who will only get to take his future children to visit their uncle’s grave.

Maybe we can all take a minute to calm down and consider that life is sacred and fragile and the next time you’re tempted to prove a point by escalating an argument take a step back and remember these two young men.

One will be visited in prison while the other will only be visited in memory.