Slicer97 said:

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AggieKatie2 said:

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I'm not saying it's ok, but child murderer and those attempting to justify and make money off it receive threats…..color me shocked


I just want to know: was Karmelo supposed to be at meet (competing) or at his own school, and was he invited into the other schools tent area or did he invite himself.

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My understanding is that he was not a competitor and was supposed to be in class at his own school. I've not heard anything reported about him being invited to the other school's tent area.

At most track meets, spectators stay in the home side stands and fence surrounding the track. Competitors set up their tents in the visitor's stands and surrounding area. Spectators usually don't go over there, just athletes and coaches.

Everything reported makes it appear that he did this deliberately because he was feeling stabby and needed an excuse.

He should never see the outside of a prison as long as he draws breath. He honestly deserves the death penalty, but that won't happen due to his age.

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100% correct

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Im Gipper said:

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So if it turns out that he had stolen items in his backpack from other people at the track meet, would it then be Capital Murder?

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No because theft is not a felony sufficient to rise to capital murder under Sec. 19.03(a)(2) of the Texas Penal Code.

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If they took the Letitia James route and decided every step he took on school property with a contraband knife was a felony then it might elevate it because that may be like 2500 felony counts to stack! But I'm not a lawyer

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Maybe in godless NY, but not in God's Country Texas!

Per Sec. 1903(a)(2), the felony has to be "kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or retaliation, or terroristic threat"

DallasAg 94 said:

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I've heard one and both were spectators which only leads to more intentional misinformation.

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But one was under his school's tent and the other was not. And the one who was not where he ever should have been provoked and then murdered the one who was.

That's the bottom line.

DallasAg 94 said:

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That was one place I ended up.

FISD's website... lots of dead ends, no pun intended.

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Both Hunter and Austin are listed as being on the track team at Memorial High School.
https://www.athletic.net/team/75449/track-and-field-outdoor/2025

Edit: Karmelo is listed as on the track team at Centennial High School.
https://www.athletic.net/team/4928/track-and-field-outdoor/2025

In their defense (and I'm going to have to go brush my teeth after the bad taste this leaves in my mouth), their tribal instinct has kicked in and they have decided he MUST be innocent. Therefore, they hear or read something that reinforces their bias and they run with it. "Karmello was on the track team; the twins were not" or "The twins stomped on his phone and were beating on him" or "The twins had been bullying him for months" all give them confirmation bias that Karmello didn't do anything.

The really sad thing is, even if this goes to trail and they have 100 witnesses get up there - from both schools - who confirm that it was Karmello who was the aggressor and antagonizer here, that he was skipping school after previously being in trouble for carrying a knife at school (things I haven't seen confirmed so doubt they are real), and Austin was not out of line, they will believe the trial was rigged by a racist society and Karmello just never had a fair chance. There will be riots.

Is there video from the track meet that might offer visual evidence?

There is a word for that GoFundMe money.

The word is Bounty.

Buford T. Justice said:

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Is there video from the track meet that might offer visual evidence?

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That someone should not be under another team's tent?

Im Gipper said:

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This whole "can't be under the tent" vs "its okay to be under the tent" is a complete red herring in my opinion.

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The murder was wrong no matter what. But the point with the tent is that is a demarcation of a team's area. If you're on the team, that space is for you. If you aren't, it is not. This is very basic. There is no justification for Anthony even being there.

If a player walked into another football team's huddle, there would be an instant fight. Everyone present understood that.

Buford T. Justice said:

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Is there video from the track meet that might offer visual evidence?

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how the media has not found a video is mind blowing.


O/U 90% of the witnesses had phone in hand during the time it happened. my guess is that lots of those kids have already been offered money for the videos.

evestor1 said:

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Buford T. Justice said:

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Is there video from the track meet that might offer visual evidence?

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how the media has not found a video is mind blowing.

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I wonder what video the school/stadium has. At football games, everything on and around the field is being recorded.

Ellis Wyatt said:

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evestor1 said:

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Buford T. Justice said:

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Is there video from the track meet that might offer visual evidence?

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how the media has not found a video is mind blowing.

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I wonder what video the school/stadium has. At football games, everything on and around the field is being recorded.

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I'd bet very good money the stadium does not have cameras that film the bleachers.

I have no idea. A big district like Frisco certainly could. I bet they will now.

I am aware of issues at HS football games that have occured on the sidelines/track/beyond the endzones that had to be addressed because they were caught on video.

Ellis Wyatt said:

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Im Gipper said:

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This whole "can't be under the tent" vs "its okay to be under the tent" is a complete red herring in my opinion.

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The murder was wrong no matter what. But the point with the tent is that is a demarcation of a team's area. If you're on the team, that space is for you. If you aren't, it is not. This is very basic. There is no justification for Anthony even being there.

If a player walked into another football team's huddle, there would be an instant fight. Everyone present understood that.

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And none of that makes a bit of difference to the charges/defenses.

If this trial is about whether or not it was okay for Anthony to be there, thats not a good sign!

DallasAg 94 said:

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Your link is for 2023. Change it to 2025 and he is listed.

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He might be JV, judging from the one meet he has listed on MileSplit (a 57.anything in the 400m is not competitive at the varsity level. At least not in Texas.)

DallasAg 94 said:

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Your link is for 2023. Change it to 2025 and he is listed.

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Good catch. Edited. Thanks

Agree 100%.

Im Gipper said:

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Im Gipper said:

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This whole "can't be under the tent" vs "its okay to be under the tent" is a complete red herring in my opinion.

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The murder was wrong no matter what. But the point with the tent is that is a demarcation of a team's area. If you're on the team, that space is for you. If you aren't, it is not. This is very basic. There is no justification for Anthony even being there.

If a player walked into another football team's huddle, there would be an instant fight. Everyone present understood that.

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And none of that makes a bit of difference to the charges/defenses.

If this trial is about whether or not it was okay for Anthony to be there, thats not a good sign!

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I think it might matter (I'm not a lawyer so others, please feel free to chime on) in that it shows how far the antagonizing might have gone. "Touch me and see what happens" is clearly antagonizing, in my opinion, but if you say that after a person points out you are somewhere you aren't supposed to be, that's a whole other issue. That's intentionally going somewhere to try and start something. Then, when a person takes the bait, you push further thinking you now have the right to kill.

evestor1 said:

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Buford T. Justice said:

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Is there video from the track meet that might offer visual evidence?

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how the media has not found a video is mind blowing.


O/U 90% of the witnesses had phone in hand during the time it happened. my guess is that lots of those kids have already been offered money for the videos.

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IIRC, the police report had a list of cell phones the police collected as evidence. Still surprised there wasn't a phone the police missed, or a video uploaded to the cloud before the phone was collected.

The old days of tried and sentenced in a day or two was problematic, but we have gone way too far the other way.

There is no reason this case shouldn't be wrapped up in 3 weeks.

Slicer97 said:

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DallasAg 94 said:

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Your link is for 2023. Change it to 2025 and he is listed.

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He might be JV, judging from the one meet he has listed on MileSplit (a 57.anything in the 400m is not competitive at the varsity level. At least not in Texas.)

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I believe this was the regional meet for Frisco which you Gabe to qualify for. My sons is tomorrow in Prosper for the Prosper/Mckinney schools. If you didn't qualify for this then you aren't running which is probably the case here.

And yes there was plenty of evidence collected but it happened very quickly. One of my son's teammates dad's was one of the first officers on scene.

Looking at the MileSplit results, he only entered the 100m (unless he was on one of the relay teams, but given his times, I doubt that) and failed to qualify for the finals.

Also looks like he only competed in one or two meets prior to the district meet (perhaps due to a suspension?).

They may have had only 2 due to weather. We only had 3 and the top 3 times at each moved to regional.

duck79 said:

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Slicer97 said:

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DallasAg 94 said:

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Your link is for 2023. Change it to 2025 and he is listed.

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He might be JV, judging from the one meet he has listed on MileSplit (a 57.anything in the 400m is not competitive at the varsity level. At least not in Texas.)

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I believe this was the regional meet for Frisco which you Gabe to qualify for. My sons is tomorrow in Prosper for the Prosper/Mckinney schools. If you didn't qualify for this then you aren't running which is probably the case here.

And yes there was plenty of evidence collected but it happened very quickly. One of my son's teammates dad's was one of the first officers on scene.

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The arrest report says "an athlete was stabbled" which I would think means Austin was definitely competing. Otherwise, it would have said a student was stabbed. It also says the suspect was wearing a grey hoodie and blue sweatpants. That makes me think he wasn't competing. However, I still argue that he had every right to be at the track meet if he was there supporting his friends/teammates. He did not, however, have the right to be under another team's tent. This isn't like a Jim Crow or Rosa Parks thing. On the football field, would he go get in the huddle with the other team? Go hang out in their locker room?

According to MileSplit, they had more than two or three. I only saw one cancellation.

It was mentioned that he had been previously suspended for bringing the knife to school, but not when, so I didn't know if he missed some meets due to that.

I don't know how they run meets up there, but in our district, field events and running prelims are held on one day with running finals held on the following day. I don't think most schools take kids that don't qualify for finals if they're travelling (our school always hosts the district meet, so I'm not 100% sure about that).

Also, given his reported attire, it doesn't sound like he was traveling with his team, so he probably should've been in class at his own school. Unless they run prelims in the morning and finals in the evening, he didn't have a good reason to be there.

This was posted on Facebook.

Minister Dominique Alexander of the Next Generation Network in Dallas, TX, held a press conference today and spoke on behalf of Karmelo Anthony's family.

He pointed out the following facts in the case and stressed multiple times that "the lies have to stop."

These are the FACTS:

1. Austin and Karmelo did not know one another.
2. There was no previous fight at a party. There was no party, period.
3. There was no cell phone stomped on.
4. The Metcalf twins and Karmelo were members of their schools track teams; their names were on the roster that day.
5. The students were bused from their prospective schools to the track meet.
6. There were no substances found in Austin's body.

I implore each of you who attacked me saying I needed to dig deeper and look at the facts, to do the same.

Austin's family is suffering; Karmelo's family is suffering. None of them asked for any of this. Both young men had bright futures. Austin's future was wiped out in minutes. Karmelo's future - regardless of whether he is found guilty or acquitted - will never be the same.

#austinmetcalf #karmeloanthony #friscotx

Source: True Crime Momma

Im Gipper said:

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This whole "can't be under the tent" vs "its okay to be under the tent" is a complete red herring in my opinion.

Even is Anthony had a right to be there and Metcalf was completely out of line for telling him to leave, it does not change that Anthony murdered him with no basis to use deadly force as a defense of himself.

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Doesn't fit the agenda so the question won't be asked but why he was in the tent to begin with. If he was visiting a friend or knew another track team member it wouldn't have happened like that. Also if he had any reason to be under tent it would have already been discussed. If he was looking for trouble just to fight he would have brought other teammates with him maybe he did, hasn't been mentioned so I doubt it. Almost like he was on a solo mission of some sort. If you have been to enough track meets you know why he was under tent.

When I was in high school I was only interested in one thing, it wasn't knifes or violence, it was babes. It's all I could think about… babes.