17-year-old fatally stabbed during high school track meet

17-year-old Austin Metcalf was fatally stabbed during a high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on Wednesday.

Metcalf was a junior at Memorial High School in Frisco. He was a member of the school’s track and field team, a team MVP as a linebacker on the varsity football team, and a member of the National Honor Society. According to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, Metcalf got into a fight at the meet with 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who is a student at Centennial High School in Frisco.

Metcalf reportedly told Anthony he was sitting in the wrong spot, and they two got into a fight. Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the heart with a knife. Metcalf’s twin brother Hunter tried to save his brother but was unsuccessful.

“They were twins, identical twins, and his brother was holding on to him, trying to make it stop bleeding, and he died in his brother’s arms,” Austin and Hunter’s father Jeff said. “I rushed up there and I saw him on the gurney and I could tell — they said he wasn’t breathing. I could see all the blood, and I saw where the wound was, and I was very concerned, so I had to find his brother, and we rushed to the hospital. And we prayed, and it’s God’s plan, I don’t understand it, but they weren’t able to save him. This is murder.”

Anthony was taken into custody and is being charged with first-degree murder.

There were over 100 athletes from eight schools at Kuykendall Stadium for the District 11-5A Championship track meet. The meet was canceled following the fatal stabbing.

“Faith that god got me and my work will pay off,” Metcalf wrote in his final post on X prior to his death.