Texas Teen Gets 35 Years in Fatal Track Meet Stabbing

AP : Jun 10, 2026
Associated Press

[Newsmax.com] A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during a high school meet was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday in a case that drew wide attention beyond the booming Dallas suburb where they were students. A jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder after rejecting his self-defense argument regarding the confrontation with Austin Metcalf in stadium bleachers last year ... "You may have been sentenced to 35 years behind bars. You should feel lucky," [Austin's mother] told Anthony. "I've been sentenced to a lifetime without my son."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via ABC News video)