Karmelo Anthony
Charged With First-Diploma Homicide
… Over H.S. Monitor Meet Stabbing
Revealed June 24, 2025 12:forty four PM PDT
Karmelo Anthony — the teenager who allegedly stabbed and killed a 17-yr-previous at a highschool monitor meet again in April — has been formally charged with first-diploma homicide.
Collin County District Lawyer Greg Willis introduced the information simply minutes in the past … explaining a grand jury indicted Anthony earlier Tuesday.
The 17-yr-previous athlete, as you already know, has been accused of taking the lifetime of Austin Metcalf throughout a dispute over a seat on the College Interscholastic League’s (UIL) District eleven-5A championship on April 2.
“For weeks,” Willis stated in saying the indictment, “my workforce has been presenting proof to the grand jury. In the present day, I summarized that proof, and I requested the Grand Jury to return a primary-diploma homicide indictment towards Karmelo Anthony — which they did.”
“With that indictment,” he continued, “the case now strikes formally into the courtroom system. From this level ahead, we’ll proceed doing our half — absolutely and pretty — to pursue justice beneath the regulation. The trial schedule will probably be set by the courtroom. However when the time comes, we’ll be prepared.”
Willis’ workplace introduced if Anthony is convicted, he faces as much as life in jail.
Anthony’s lawyer, Mike Howard, issued a video response a short while after the indictment got here down … and he confused his shopper’s actions have been “self-protection.”
“We’re assured that when all of the details are introduced and the complete story is heard,” he stated, “the jury will attain the proper conclusion and justice will probably be executed.”
