the confrontation began<\/a> when Anthony sat under a tent belonging to Metcalf\u2019s team, according to an arrest report. The teens went to different high schools in Frisco.\n <\/p>\n\n When Metcalf told Anthony that he needed to move, Anthony reached inside his bag and allegedly replied: \u201cTouch me and see what happens,\u201d the report said.\n <\/p>\n
\n A short time later, Metcalf allegedly grabbed Anthony, who then pulled out a knife and stabbed the other teenager in the chest, the report said.\n <\/p>\n
\n A police officer said in the report that Anthony told him that Metcalf had put his hands on him, and that he was protecting himself.\n <\/p>\n
\n Mike Howard, Anthony\u2019s attorney, said following the indictment last summer that he expects prosecutors would \u201cnot be able to rule out the reasonable doubt\u201d that his client may have acted in self-defense once the full details of the confrontation come out.\n <\/p>\n
\n The parents of both teens have said they were good students who planned to go to college.\n <\/p>\n
\n Metcalf\u2019s father has condemned those who have seized on the race of the teenagers after the killing. Anthony is Black; Austin Metcalf was white.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis was not a race thing. This is not a political thing. Please do not comment if you do not know what happened,\u201d Metcalf\u2019s father, Jeff Metcalf, said on Fox News\u2019 \u201cAmerica Reports.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis is a human being thing,\u201d he said. \u201cThis person made a bad choice and it affected both his family and my family forever.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Authorities have also issued warnings about online discussions surrounding the killing. Frisco Police Chief David Shilson has urged people to beware of posts spreading \u201cmisinformation, hate, fear, and division.\u201d\u2019\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Opening statements were set for Thursday in the murder trial of a former Texas high school athlete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-322310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}