{"id":329540,"date":"2026-06-09T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/329540\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:39:11","slug":"karmelo-anthony-jury-convicts-texas-teen-of-murder-in-fatal-stabbing-of-17-year-old-athlete-from-rival-team-at-a-high-school-track-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/329540\/","title":{"rendered":"Karmelo Anthony: Jury convicts Texas teen of murder in fatal stabbing of 17-year-old athlete from rival team at a high school track meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmq70cruk00083b6rwu4hykg3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            McKinney, Texas (AP) \u2014 A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-high-school-track-meet-stabbing-13485047150f59fd7800626b0d3ffeb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">during a meet<\/a> was convicted of murder Tuesday in a trial that drew national attention far beyond the booming Dallas suburb where the two students attended different high schools.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmq71i6as001d3b6roil026ry@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A jury rejected Karmelo Anthony\u2019s claims of self-defense during a confrontation with Austin Metcalf in the stadium\u2019s bleachers last year. Anthony, now 19, didn\u2019t testify. Most who did were students who described a heated exchange over him refusing to leave a tent belonging to Metcalf\u2019s team during a rainy competition.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmq71i6as001e3b6r9y477t0z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Anthony faces up to life in prison upon sentencing.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmq70e7ox000i3b6rt4n3endk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This is a breaking news story and will be updated.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McKinney, Texas (AP) \u2014 A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-329540","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\/329540","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=329540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}