TX - Austin Metcalf - 17 - fatally stabbed at track meet, 2 April 2025

[Teche]

bbm
Same here.
Why would a student, or anyone for that matter, sit in the other school's area? Even if it was a mistake, wouldn't the student realize it and move? (Maybe not, but I doubt it.)
We had a "home" side and a "visitors" side, so it was easy to see the difference WRT the students.
Maybe he sat there on purpose, for whatever reason? Anyway, he is in Big Trouble now.

And a family has lost their son.

My daughter played varsity volleyball and travel volleyball for years. You would oftentimes play teams that you knew a few members on the opposing teams. You visited with the players and their parents. My grandson runs varsity
Cross Country and the runners do visit with members of the opposing teams. I don't find that strange.

 

[mickey2942]

My daughter played varsity volleyball and travel volleyball for years. You would oftentimes play teams that you knew a few members on the opposing teams. You visited with the players and their parents. My grandson runs varsity
Cross Country and the runners do visit with members of the opposing teams. I don't find that strange.

Again, it really depends on the culture and area you live.

 

[LordMo]

Comments by KA’s dad -

“Everyone has already made their assumptions about my son, but he’s not what they’re making him out to be,” Andrew Anthony to The Post.
(…)
“He’s a good kid. He works two jobs. He’s an A student, has a 3.7 GPA,” the heartbroken dad said.
(…)
Anthony also extended sympathy to Miller’s family.

“I feel bad for the other parents and family, and words can’t explain how both [families] have been affected by this tragedy.”

MSN

cool backstory, still a murderer.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Comments by KA’s dad -

“Everyone has already made their assumptions about my son, but he’s not what they’re making him out to be,” Andrew Anthony to The Post.
(…)
“He’s a good kid. He works two jobs. He’s an A student, has a 3.7 GPA,” the heartbroken dad said.
(…)
Anthony also extended sympathy to Miller’s family.

“I feel bad for the other parents and family, and words can’t explain how both [families] have been affected by this tragedy.”

MSN

The only assumption I've made is that he pulled out a knife and killed someone with it.
I genuinely don't care about any other part of his life, his employment, his grades or anything else.

He murdered someone in cold blood, and that's what matters.

jmo

 

[Only4Justice]

Good Morning. I just came to WS to see if this was posted. Just horrible and senseless. Lives ruined for no *g reason. Makes me angry. JMO

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[AppleTreeGreen]

Frisco PD warns against misinformation online about track meet stabbing

Frisco police are urging people to be on the lookout for misinformation surrounding a deadly stabbing at a track meet in Frisco.

www.fox4news.com

 

[Only4Justice]

When an officer referred to Anthony as the alleged suspect, Anthony reportedly responded, "I'm not alleged, I did it."
(…)
A witness told police that Anthony unzipped a bag he had, reached in, telling the victim [Metcalf]: "Touch me and see what happens."

A short time later, the report says, "Austin grabbed Anthony to tell him to move and Anthony pulled out ... a black knife and stabbed Austin once in the chest."

Suspect in fatal stabbing during Frisco high school track meet: ‘I did it'

NBC 5 obtained new information on Wednesday’s fatal stabbing during a high school track meet in Frisco.

www.nbcdfw.com

So hard to hit Like on these posts

 

[Cryptic]

You visited with the players and their parents. My grandson runs varsity
Cross Country and the runners do visit with members of the opposing teams. I don't find that strange.

I think it maybe good to distinguish between visiting and loitering in another team's "area".

Despite sounding formal, "area" at a track meet just means the place where they put their backpacks, eat their lunches, set up small tents, and stash "this and that" type stuff.

Kids and parents visit each other during track meets in my district. But, there is also an active expectation that students do not loiter in, sit in etc. in another team's "area".

As @mickey2942 stated, the expectation regarding "areas" depends on the local environment and culture. Our school, and our usual opponents are centered on over all low income schools with increased theft temptations, and proportionally more students with confrontational attitudes.

So... coaches have a "He just does not need to be there" approach to students loitering in other team's "areas" as often leads to avoidable head aches- usually relatively minor ones, but still a pain.

 

[Trebor5591]

Has anyone from a relatively unbiased source come forward and said what kind of kid the stabber was beforehand?

He must have been a violent kind of kid, in my opinion, seeing the results here.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“Good luck young man. Bullying must stop!!” one person wrote, while another chimed in, “Let this be a message to all bullies. Don’t start no stuff, won’t be no stuff.”

Fundraiser for Texas football star Austin Metcalf’s accused killer rakes in $60,000 as he claims self-defense

The GiveSendGo campaign was purportedly set up by the family of Karmelo Anthony, 17, who cops say confessed to the horrific stabbing at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, last Wednesday.

nypost.com

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

The only assumption I've made is that he pulled out a knife and killed someone with it.
I genuinely don't care about any other part of his life, his employment, his grades or anything else.

He murdered someone in cold blood, and that's what matters.

jmo

The first question that I have is why would this kid even have a knife on him? He was at a track meet during the day with kids, coaches and parents. This wasn't a bad section of town. Was the murderer on a team? Why was he in the wrong spot? If someone told me that I was sitting in the wrong spot, I would have said, "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize it. Do you know where my team's spot is?" Pulling out a knife and stabbing someone wouldn't even enter my mind.

JMO.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

The vast, vast majority of people wouldn't bring a knife to a track meet. The fact that he both brought one and used it, when he could have just said some choice words and walked away, tells us a lot, IMO.

 

[LordMo]

The first question that I have is why would this kid even have a knife on him? He was at a track meet during the day with kids, coaches and parents. This wasn't a bad section of town. Was the murderer on a team? Why was he in the wrong spot? If someone told me that I was sitting in the wrong spot, I would have said, "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize it. Do you know where my team's spot is?" Pulling out a knife and stabbing someone wouldn't even enter my mind.

JMO.

yeah, this is where I'm at. I won't be surprised if there's more to the story but at the end of the day: why was the knife even there?

 

[borndem]

Your area and track meets sound alot like Frisco. Which is why the attack is so shocking having occurred there. And like you emphasized, Track has a different ethos than other sports. Thus, adding to the shock

Some of the difference might be due to state culture. Texas takes sports seriously. Maybe more confrontation fuel due to more juiced up parents and more students who are athlete- students in their glory days and not student- athletes?

Then factor in even slight differences in our areas. Our school is over all low income, led the state in Fentanyl deaths, and has had students shot (off campus) We mostly play schools with similar problems to our own.

So....coaches are more proactive and tend to apply the "Little good happens after midnight" approach to violations of seating norms and team areas- especially with boys.

No active shooter type response. Rather, just a: "Male student(s) sitting in another teams area? They just don't need to be there. Nothing productive is likely to happen." type approach.

Likewise, as @daybreaking pointed out, there is the gear. Lower over all income in our area makes phones, ear pods, cool shoes and Nike stuff that more tempting. Thus, one more reason for the "They just do not need to be there" proactiveness.

Good post, IMO. It makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for pointing out how things can/could/might go in sports rivalries/competitions.

 

[Only4Justice]

Has anyone from a relatively unbiased source come forward and said what kind of kid the stabber was beforehand?

Good luck to us finding an unbiased source in todays news

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

yeah, this is where I'm at. I won't be surprised if there's more to the story but at the end of the day: why was the knife even there?

After reading a post upstream (Cryptic, Post #50) about designated areas for the teams and the possibility of theft temptation, I am wondering if the perpetrator was in the tent to rifle through belongings. I mean, if the kids had their cell phones, wallets, tablets, etc., in their backpacks, that would be a gold mine for someone who wanted to steal something. Perhaps, the victims suspected that is what this other kid was doing? In any case, the perpetrator could have easily gotten out of the situation by saying, "Sorry, my bad." and left.

If it is true that the victim put his hands on him, I wonder if he suspected something had already been stolen??

JMO.

 

[katydid23]

Comments by KA’s dad -

“Everyone has already made their assumptions about my son, but he’s not what they’re making him out to be,” Andrew Anthony to The Post.
(…)
“He’s a good kid. He works two jobs. He’s an A student, has a 3.7 GPA,” the heartbroken dad said.

That almost makes it worse,. He is a very smart kid, not a druggie or a low IQ kid----so what's his problem?

(…)
Anthony also extended sympathy to Miller’s family.

“I feel bad for the other parents and family, and words can’t explain how both [families] have been affected by this tragedy.”

throwing HIS family into the mix right then seems unsympathetic, imo.

MSN

 

[Arkay]

I’m an American, but still know very little about track. No one in my family or friend groups has ever been involved with it as a sport, and I’m just learning here about the protocol of where one is supposed to sit or not sit.

I’m a mother and grandmother though, and particularly, I’m an identical twin. That’s why this story speaks to me so profoundly.

I cannot articulate the pain his twin must be feeling. The whole family has to suffer so needlessly, but watching your identical twin die while you try fruitlessly to save him is one of the very worst things I can imagine.

Maybe the attacker had a decent G.P.A., etc., but as others have said, that is immaterial. He brought a knife to a sporting event.

As I’m learning from the posters above, track seems to be a sport in which there is a spirit of camaraderie. There can’t be any good reason to have secreted a knife on one’s person to participate in a school track meet.

IMO

 

[acutename]

When an officer referred to Anthony as the alleged suspect, Anthony reportedly responded, "I'm not alleged, I did it."
(…)
A witness told police that Anthony unzipped a bag he had, reached in, telling the victim [Metcalf]: "Touch me and see what happens."

A short time later, the report says, "Austin grabbed Anthony to tell him to move and Anthony pulled out ... a black knife and stabbed Austin once in the chest."

Suspect in fatal stabbing during Frisco high school track meet: ‘I did it'

NBC 5 obtained new information on Wednesday’s fatal stabbing during a high school track meet in Frisco.

www.nbcdfw.com

"touch me see what happens" is a threat. Drawing a line in the sand. The victim did not really perceive it as dangerous ...