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Heated clashes erupt outside Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial; coach of victim, Austin Metcalf, weeps in court

June 5, 2026 | | Print Article

The first day of Karmelo Anthony’s trial began this Thursday with dueling parties based almost entirely on race verbally duking it out just outside the courthouse in McKinney, Texas.

Anthony is the then-17-year-old black teen who fatally stabbed fellow 17-year-old white teen Austin Metcalf to death during a dispute that occurred on April 2, 2025, at a track meet in Frisco.

Anthony’s nearly all-black supporters barraged his detractors with racist verbal attacks as they waited Thursday for the trial to begin.

“You gon end up like Metcalf — you gone be pushing up daisies,” a black woman said in the top-right video below, recorded by Savannah Hernandez of Turning Point USA:

“Imma push you if I get close enough — push you right into that grave,” one male black Anthony supporter yelled at the suspect’s detractors. “You heard what I said, cracker. I don’t give a f–k what you say. F–k you, cracker.”

“The only good cracker is a dead cracker,” the same unhinged black man later added right in front of a police officer.

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Meanwhile, inside the courthouse, Frisco track and football coach Robert Starr grew emotional as he recalled the aftermath of the stabbing incident.

The incident happened inside a Memorial High School tent at the David Kuykendall Stadium on April 2, 2025. It was witnessed by Metcalf’s brother, Hunter, who later recalled confronting Anthony after he and his brother had spotted him standing near their team tent, only for Anthony to snap.

“My brother stepped in. He started being how he always is. We’re just brothers, just having my back,” Hunter recalled to Fox News last year. “Things started getting more, like, higher intensity, and the kid said some, like, aggressive stuff — like, reckless stuff — and Austin tried to handle the problem.”

“I whipped my head around, and then all of a sudden I see him running down the bleachers just grabbing his chest… I put my hand on there, tried to make it [the bleeding] stop, and I grabbed his head, and I looked in his eyes. I just saw his soul leave, and it took my soul, too,” he added.

Anthony’s defenders now argue that he was in the right to snap and strike Metcalf with a knife because Metcalf had put his arms on him. His detractors, meanwhile, maintain that Metcalf never did anything to justify being stabbed.

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According to Starr, the coach, he saw “commotion” by the team’s tent and made his way over, only to find Metcalf on the ground bleeding to death, as reported by station KXAS.

“I see Austin on the ground, and his face is purple, and he has a big hole in his chest,” Starr said as he reportedly sobbed.

Meanwhile, Starr saw Hunter say “do something” while pointing to Anthony, so he made his way over to the black teen and told him to stay put. In response, Anthony allegedly put his hands on him.

“Starr told the jury that he got upset and that Anthony’s coaches told Starr to leave, but later said they did not know Starr was a coach,” according to KXAS.

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Starr then returned to the stands, where he found everybody praying, including Hunter. Starr then walked up to Hunter, and the two knelt and prayed.

“I just knew Austin was gone,” the coach recalled.

In his opening statements, Collin County prosecutor Bill Wirskye argued that Anthony had started and provoked the confrontation that led to Metcalf’s death.

“He used a hidden knife, opened in his hand, plunged into Austin Metcalf’s chest, causing his death, and then ran away,” Wirskye said in court, according to station KDFW.

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