Father of teen accused of fatal stabbing at high school track meet shares his side

The father of a teenager who was arrested for allegedly stabbing another high schooler at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, has addressed the fatal incident, and he claims his son was provoked.

Austin Metcalf, a junior Memorial High School in Frisco, was stabbed on Wednesday after he allegedly got into a fight with 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who is a student at Centennial High School in Frisco. Reports indicated that the dispute began after Metcalf told Anthony he was sitting in the wrong spot. Metcalf was stabbed in the heart and could not be saved.

Anthony was taken into custody and is being charged with first-degree murder. Anthony’s father, Andrew Anthony, told Jared Downing of the New York Post on Thursday that people have jumped to conclusions about his son without knowing all of the facts…

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