{"id":333574,"date":"2026-06-12T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333574\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:47:11","slug":"texas-teen-karmelo-anthony-convicted-in-austin-metcalf-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333574\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Teen Karmelo Anthony Convicted in Austin Metcalf Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Texas jury found 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder on Tuesday, June 9, in the fatal stabbing of high school runner Austin Metcalf. The verdict concludes a widely followed case stemming from a confrontation at a 2025 track meet in Frisco.According to CNN, jurors rejected Anthony&#8217;s self-defense claim linked to the Frisco, Texas, track and field event. Multiple student witnesses described a heated exchange before Metcalf, 17, was stabbed in the bleachers during a rain delay.Anthony did not testify during the trial. Defense attorney Mike Howard argued, per the Daily Mail, that Anthony had a right to defend himself. Anthony faces a potential sentence of up to life in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas jury found 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder on Tuesday, June 9, in the fatal stabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54274,114711,115267,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-333574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-confrontation","tag-karmelo-anthony","tag-mike-howard","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333574","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=333574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}