A 17-year-old was fatally stabbed during a high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, last Wednesday, and some new details about the incident have since emerged.
Austin Metcalf, a junior Memorial High School in Frisco, was stabbed after he allegedly got into a fight with 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who is a student at Centennial High School in Frisco. Reports indicated that the dispute began after Metcalf told Anthony he was sitting in the wrong spot. Metcalf was stabbed in the heart.
According to an arrest report that was obtained by ABC News, Anthony confessed to killing Metcalf but told police he acted in self-defense. Anthony, who has been charged with first-degree murder, told officers that he was “protecting myself.” When one officer told another that he had the alleged suspect in custody, Anthony reportedly responded, “I’m not alleged, I did it.”
The arrest report also states that Anthony asked an officer unprompted if what Anthony had done “could be considered self-defense.” A different officer wrote in the report that Anthony was “crying hysterically.”
Officers said in the report that they spoke with multiple witnesses at the scene. One witness said the altercation began when Metcalf told Anthony to move out from under the team’s tent. The witness said Anthony reached into his bag during the confrontation and told Metcalf, “Touch me and see what happens.”
When Metcalf allegedly grabbed Anthony to move him, a witness said Anthony pulled out a knife and “stabbed Austin once in the chest and then ran away.”
Metcalf was pronounced dead after being rushed to a hospital.
Anthony is being held in the Collin County jail on $1 million bond, according to court records.
Metcalf’s twin brother, Hunter Metcalf, was present at the time his brother was stabbed. He described his version of the events last week and said he and his brother had asked Anthony to move when Anthony “started getting aggressive and talking reckless.”
Anthony’s father later told a media outlet that his son was not the aggressor in the altercation.
Metcalf was a member of Memorial High 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.
