                                        {"id":1352,"date":"2026-06-06T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:36:34","slug":"karmelo-anthony-fidgets-in-court-as-heartbreaking-video-shows-victims-twin-brother-react-to-fatal-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Karmelo Anthony fidgets in court as heartbreaking video shows victim&#8217;s twin brother react to fatal stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>McKINNEY, Texas \u2013 Austin Metcalf\u2019s twin brother could be heard desperately sobbing and screaming after his high school jock sibling was fatally stabbed allegedly by Karmelo Anthony \u2014 who squirmed in the courtroom as harrowing bodycam footage was played.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1350\">Karmelo Anthony was asked to leave opposing team\u2019s tent \u201915 times\u2019 before fatal stabbing, witness says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly God, holy God,\u201d Hunter Metcalf said through tears, apparently praying. \u201cHe\u2019s my best friend! 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Hurry up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The heartbreaking moment unfolded as medics and bystanders crowded around the bloodied body of Austin and attempted to revive him with CPR, as the video was shown to jurors on the second day of Anthony\u2019s murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, now 19, sat in the Collin County courtroom in McKinney fidgeting, including touching his lip and averting his eyes during particularly graphic moments.<\/p>\n<p>At one point he rubbed his eyes and his lawyer, sitting next to him, patted him on the shoulder. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1348\">Prospects have dimmed for Spencer Pratt, Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Here\u2019s the latest on Karmelo Anthony\u2019s murder trial following the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Austin Metcalf\u2019s final words revealed in fatal stabbing at Texas track meet<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jury selection in Karmelo Anthony murder case delivers major blow to defense as trial begins<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Potential Karmelo Anthony jurors dismissed after saying they could never send him to prison: \u2018He looks like a child\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why the jury might not buy Karmelo Anthony\u2019s self-defense claim in fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony also briefly quivered toward the end of the harrowing video.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, a student at Frisco Centennial High School, is accused of knifing Austin \u2014 who attended Frisco Memorial High School \u2014 during a track and field meet on April 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The pair got into an altercation after the 17-year-old victim asked Anthony, also 17 at the time, to move out from under the Memorial team tent. The pair allegedly shoved each other before Anthony pulled the folding knife out of his bag and stabbed Austin once in the chest, prosecutors claimed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthony has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers claim the stabbing was in self-defense after Austin started the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1346\">Trump pardons former US Congressman Stephen Buyer convicted of insider trading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Metcalf\u2019s twin brother could be heard desperately sobbing and screaming after his high school jock sibling was allegedly fatally stabbed by Karmelo Anthony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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