{"id":330055,"date":"2026-06-10T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330055\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:58:12","slug":"texas-teenager-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison-in-murder-of-high-school-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330055\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas teenager sentenced to 35 years in prison in murder of high school student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZVKIP2YVQ5CC7CQAXKH4ZT437A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A Texas jury sentenced 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony on Tuesday evening to 35 years in prison for the murder of Austin Metcalf, 17, last April at a high school track meet in which they were competing.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GGFNTDDXNZFHXEQPVX67UKHYRE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Witnesses testified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/06\/10\/texas-teenager-sentenced-35-years-prison-murder-high-school-student\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/06\/10\/texas-teenager-sentenced-35-years-prison-murder-high-school-student\/\">during the eight-day trial<\/a> north of Dallas that the two teens clashed after Anthony took shelter under Metcalf\u2019s team tent. Anthony pulled a knife and later confessed to law enforcement, although he and his attorney insisted it was self-defense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas jury sentenced 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony on Tuesday evening to 35 years in prison for the murder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-330055","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\/330055","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=330055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}