{"id":327956,"date":"2026-06-08T19:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327956\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:28:17","slug":"witness-texas-teen-charged-in-fatal-stabbing-was-upset-about-being-touched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327956\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness: Texas teen charged in fatal stabbing was upset about being touched"},"content":{"rendered":"

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) \u2014 A teenager who fatally stabbed a competitor<\/a> at a Texas high school track meet was upset immediately after the confrontation and said he had warned the victim \u201cnot to touch me,\u201d a witness testified Monday as a trial entered a second week.<\/p>\n

Karmelo Anthony, now 19, is charged with murder in the death of Austin Metcalf, 17, at a school stadium in Frisco, a Dallas suburb, in April 2025.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say the stabbing was an unjustified attack<\/a> related to a dispute over whether Anthony could be under the tent of Metcalf\u2019s team during a rainy track meet. Defense attorneys insist Anthony felt threatened and believed he needed to defend himself when physical contact was made.<\/p>\n

One of Anthony\u2019s teammates, testifying Monday for the defense, said Anthony was \u201cdistraught\u201d after the stabbing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was hearing him say, \u2018I told him not to touch me,\u2019\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n

Judge John Roach Jr. has said young witnesses can\u2019t be publicly identified. <\/p>\n

Metcalf\u2019s death drew wide attention, in part because of social media posts that amplified the case in racial terms. Anthony, who attended Frisco Centennial High School, is Black, while Metcalf, who attended Frisco Memorial High School, was white. <\/p>\n

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Prosecutors rested their case Saturday in Collin County court. Jurors last week heard from a number of people who were at the track meet, including students who said Anthony had been asked to leave the tent and was the aggressor in the confrontation.<\/p>\n

The courtroom was packed again Monday with spectators, including the parents of Anthony and Metcalf, and younger people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) \u2014 A teenager who fatally stabbed a competitor at a Texas high school track meet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115271,815,294,102,490,2461,117174,2894,4119,25209,27,29,28,9929,1760,1499,6878],"class_list":["post-327956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin-metcalf","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-general-news","tag-homicide","tag-john-roach-jr","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-schools","tag-teens","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trials","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-news","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327956","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=327956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}