{"id":692659,"date":"2026-06-09T02:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:03:14","slug":"karmelo-anthony-murder-trial-detective-says-knife-in-stabbing-was-legal-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692659\/","title":{"rendered":"Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial Detective Says Knife in Stabbing Was Legal in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The knife Karmelo Anthony<\/a> allegedly used to fatally stab Austin Metcalf<\/a> at a high school track meet wasn’t illegal under Texas law … according to a police detective who testified in Anthony’s murder trial.<\/p>\n

The testimony came as Anthony’s defense team wrapped up its case, with jurors hearing from Detective Beau Riley — a member of Frisco PD’s Crimes Against Children unit who responded to the scene of the fatal stabbing.<\/p>\n

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One of the key moments came when Anthony’s attorney had Riley confirm the knife Anthony carried that day was legal to possess in Texas … and legal to bring into a stadium.<\/p>\n

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Riley also testified he interviewed several witnesses in the fieldhouse following the incident, including a track athlete who knew Anthony and had spoken with him under a team tent before the deadly confrontation. He told jurors he conducted a “thorough” review of the student’s cellphone … examining the teen’s camera roll, text messages and Snapchat account.<\/p>\n

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The defense later called a 17-year-old track athlete who said he witnessed part of the commotion from near the stadium gates.<\/p>\n

While he testified he had only a limited view of the bleachers, he recalled seeing a chaotic scene unfold.<\/p>\n

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He told jurors … “Everybody was standing up and I saw somebody get pushed or get punched, I don’t know which.”<\/p>\n

On cross-examination, prosecutors got the witness to acknowledge he doesn’t remember every detail from that day … and that portions of his recollection didn’t fully match the video evidence.<\/p>\n

After an extended lunch break, Anthony’s attorneys announced they were resting their case, and court was dismissed for the day. His murder trial resumes Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The knife Karmelo Anthony allegedly used to fatally stab Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet wasn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-692659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}