The jury deliberated for three hours and returned the verdict of guilty against Karmelo Anthony, for murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the heart.
The evidence against Karmelo Anthony was overwhelming. The trial now moves to the sentencing phase for jurors to decide Anthony’s punishment. Anthony, who is now 19 years old, faces a sentencing range of five to 99 years, or life in prison with the opportunity for parole.
TEXAS – […] Testimony during the punishment phase can include evidence of other crimes or bad acts, character and the impact on the families. The defense called Anthony’s mother, Kala Hayes, as its only witness and asked few questions, KXAS-TV reported.
“He’s my oldest,” said Hayes, who began crying, according to KXAS. “He’ll always be my baby. I love him very much.” Karmelo also appeared to be crying as his mother spoke, KXAS reported.
On cross examination, prosecutor Bill Wirskye asked Hayes if Anthony “still gets to be a part of your life” and she said yes, WFAA-TV reported.
The defense rested its case on punishment about 2:50 p.m., and the judge called for a short break before giving the jury instructions to deliberate on punishment. Closing arguments on punishment are expected this afternoon, WFAA reported. (source)
🚨 JUST IN: Karmelo Anthony supporter RAGES saying "I don't know what to tell my 5 boys!" after Anthony is found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf
"I don't know what to do. I got 5 boys. I ain't got nothin' to tell 'em no mo'. You can't walk away no mo'!"
TELL THEM NOT TO… pic.twitter.com/xuwpYulLGC
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 9, 2026
🚨 NOW: Karmelo Anthony supporters are absolutely LOSING IT on each other out here in the courthouse parking lot
A black man walked up and told them to “STOP CHIMPING OUT,” and now they’re eating each other alive
“Why am I sitting here fighting YOU?! Why is another BLACK MAN… pic.twitter.com/MBedOi96ut
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 9, 2026
These race baiters are despicable.
Eff bee eye stirring up people? Why on earth what I suspect that?
They were instructed to by the see eye hay.
Just as Antifa could not exist without the full support of the fbi, the Black Panthers will stir up lots of violence and will remain UNCHALLENGED by the LEO’s in the area.
The 2026 Summer of Love (chaos) kicks off in Texas…where does the mayhem goes from there?
I’m pretty sure that Texans will take a much dimmer view of the riots in Minneapolis and it will be stopped quickly.
If this were CA or any other blue state they would have already given Karmelo the keys to the state, paid media appearances, and a $10 million settlement as thanks for killing a promising White U.S. citizen that had a bright future ahead of him.
And 40,000 homeless votes.
Hopefully the Metcalf family sues and takes every dime Anthony’s family scammed from people. A wrongful death verdict should put the scammers right back where they were before they failed to control their kid’s outbursts
I miss the killer’s original hair do.
Karmelo will no doubt file an appeal, and one argument would be the exclusion of three prospective black jurors who were all teachers. These were not the ones with excuses like they couldn’t put a “brother” in jail. The disqualification for these three was their occupation, not their race.
The prosecutor will probably argue that it was coincidental that the three were black, but the three were dismissed because it was likely their constant contact with students could lead them to, “Well, teenagers go get into fights, and things can get a little out of hand. Boys will be boys, especially the athletes. A tragedy for both families….” reasoning.
There were two Asians, an Hispanic, and a woman in a hijab on the jury, so there was diversity.
As I understand it, each side has the right to exclude up to X number of jurors from the jury, no explanation needed.
Excluding Jurors During Voir Dire
Peremptory Challenges: Each side has a limited number of peremptory challenges, allowing them to exclude jurors without providing a reason. These challenges are used strategically and do not require justification to the judge.
judicial gerrymandering?
similar?
True, but if one side uses its peremptory challenges (no reason given) to exclude all potential jurors of one race, especially the same race as the defendant, it can violate the Equal Protection Clause. Batson v. Kentucky (1986).
I think the prosecutor has a decent argument for their exclusion.
The trial loss was deliberate as SD pointed out over the past week. It was all staged for an “Ineffective Defense” appeal with a dozen reasons including Karmelo is an imbecile with a 60 IQ. Like a corrupted prize fighter they “threw” the match!
Lawfare and the race baiters needed a guilty verdict to fan the flames this summer for the November election! 😎
A defense fun dover $600K, and this is the best he could buy? And we don’t know of other sources who might have been helping with legal bills.
And the funds keep pouring in. The GOAL for the GSG is 1.4 million. There will be an appeal.
Besides the race grievance industry members protesting outside the courthouse there, if they planned for another summer of love, they failed. Newspapers in other parts of the country don’t even have this story on the front page nor have it with any scandalous headlines. For example Orlando Florida papers’ headlines are the anniversary of the Pulse night club murders nothing about Marshmello Anthony, in Daytona Beach the headlines are about beach toll booth collector killed by driver who rammed into the booth, Atlanta papers have zero about this on their front page, and on and on. The race grievance industry has worn out it’s race card and people don’t listen to them anymore.
Commentary I heard from a “defense” attorney on “Court TV”…
“The judge is dumb (for not allowing cameras in the courtroom).”
“He (Anthony) stabbed Austin only once.”
“It was only a short knife.”
He also pointed fingers at the jury for taking a mere three hours to determine their verdict. A verdict which by this self admitted “enraged” lawyer’s judgement was not in any way justified.
As I wrote earlier, I hope Governor Abbott has the Texas National Guard on speed dial.
TSA says that my 2 inch Swiss Army knife was a terrorist weapon, so a short knife that did kill Metcalf makes it not murder?
It’s all Austin‘s fault for having his heart so close to the surface of his chest. C’mon, man!
In Britain you’d be handcuffed, prosecuted, and spending time at his Majesty’s pleasure in Wormwood Scrubs for a not inconsiderable amount of time. I am not being hyperbolic.
I can beat your TSA experience…
Decades ago, the TSA confiscated my then 7 year old’s obvious toy gun, his pride and joy. After we had disembarked from a UK flight.
AFTER.
Abject stupidity on full display. Bet I can describe the “defense attorney.”
I understand Anthony was represented by a public defender.
Since he didn’t use any of the so called go-fund-me proceeds for legal fees, which was the purported reason to raise 600k, Karmelo is a fraud in addition to being a murderer.
Supposedly the reason Anthony was in their tent is because he was suspended & not allowed to be on school grounds because he brought the knife to school. So he couldn’t sit in his tent & he was not competing & shouldn’t have worn the uniform if that is what he was wearing. I wonder if that was brought up in the trial. I have no way of determining if it was true, but made sense.
I don’t think it was, but it would have come out under cross if Karmelo had testified.
The short deliberation time might be another ground for appeal, but the presentation of the evidence didn’t take that long. One day for defense. A couple days for prosecution. The eyewitness evidence and expert testimony were concise.
All they really had to deliberate was intent, and choose between murder and manslaughter. I doubt any on the jury were going for acquittal.
Everything is grounds for appeal. A judge decides if it is a valid reason or not. Then the case still has to be heard again.
Yes. Post-trial motions, which will likely be denied (because the judge would essentially admitting he screwed up), and the on to the appeals courts.
After TX, the defendant can go to federal court to challenge the conviction as a violation of federal law, such as the Equal Protection or Due Process clauses.
Meanwhile Karmelo stays in jail.
Was there actual video of the murder? You’d think that would go a long way towards conviction.
I think there was some long-range CCTV, but most of the action occurred underneath the tent (more like awning open on all sides).
and my understanding (please correct if not correct) that there was a deluge of rain happening before and possibly during the stabbing. Even if the rain let up, this is Texas…in the south, after a hard rain, you tend to have a saturation of moist air that would cling to any camera not specifically protected from the environment (most cameras and cctc as not designed to operate in high humidity, post heavy rain fall conditions)
God Bless America
Wish you could have been the attorney I heard, Wethal. A steady, calm explanation.
The man sounded like an hysteric.
I heard that clip, too. The “but he only” defense. Wonder what law school he went to.
I tuned in via a link on Citizen Free Press. Entered as he was blowing his top. At first I thought Anthony had been acquitted from the level of outrage I was hearing. But then, as you noted also, came but, but, but…only ad infinitum”, and knew he’d been found guilty.
I continued listening for a few more minutes to the absurdities, delivered with a level of hysteria we usually hear from
Liberal feminists. It seems the program hadn’t been too fussy about grabbing an “attorney” for the segment..any old attorney. He embarrassed himself.
Heck I was embarrassed for him.
Pitiful…
With full loads of LIVE AMMO…and the permission to use it!
Those pics show that he never would have made it out of his 20s alive. 🙄
The jury was given the option of a manslaughter conviction, but it chose murder.
I “stole” the following:
“Now Karmelo gets to live in a gated community!”
What a lucky ducky! 🦆
😁😁😁😁😁
Free room and board, medical and dental for life of the stay.
if he lives that long…..
Will they call him Melo Yellow (quite rightly).
Lock him up. Throw away the key.
I did NOT follow the trial. So I have a question that I think is salient:
Was it ever explained as to why Anthony had that knife on him in the first place??
He wanted to be prepared, just in case he ran into any white people he didn’t like.
Apparently, Karmelo had been suspended from school for having the same knife on him and he was banned from the school campus.
Another point is exactly what was Karmelo’s thought process of the consequences for his actions? Did he even think that far ahead to envision what punishment he could face for plunging a butcher knife into a White high school students chest in front of a hundred witnesses. Did he think he could toss the knife and walk away unencumbered?
I find this remarkably similar to Black teens who carjack a driver in Washington DC, kill him, then steal the car driving eight blocks before they abandon it. What was the thought process for that and how many dozens of times do you read the same headline? 😎
One of characteristics of the immature is the inability to consider the full consequences of one’s actions before doing them.
An example of FAFO.
thought process. ? you believe he was thinking about things?
He wanted to be a brain surgeon ever since he was a wee little lad. He thought it was a scalpel. He took it everywhere he went in case he had an opportunity to practice the delicate art of incision making.
Now the mean White men have stolen his dream!
Black lady: “I don’t know what to tell my 5 boys”
Normal people with minimally basic intelligence: “Tell your 5 boys not to murder people”
🎯
The entitlement is off the charts, they really think they should be able to walk up to a white person and kill them in cold blood with no consequences. And the reason they think this is because they HAVE been able to do that for awhile. We’ve all watched as it’s happened over and over again, it’s as if white peoples’ lives are not worth anything.
Once you reach that level of entitlement I don’t know how you come back, on a personal level or a national level. How can we live in the same country knowing that we can be murdered with impunity, a lá Nicole Brown Simpson?
Why, they must think they are in England, for crying out loud…..
For those who don’t live here and who think we tend to be racist, please listen to the what these people and the Black Panthers are saying. No remorse. No responsibility. Just anger that they don’t get a pass whenever they refuse to live civilly like the rest of us. There will be no corrective adjustments made to how they raise their kids. Maybe where you live they come from a different gene pool, but here in Texas we have more than our fair share of Dumb-As-A-Brick variety.
Fatigued.
Dumb as a brick added to the progressive take over of civil society (and especially media and schools and in both cases religion tossed to the side) is how we got here.
No matter a person’s circumstances, personal responsibility is a cornerstone of civilized society. We cannot continue to let the communists do their best to destroy that.
Black fatigue is real.
I was going to link the Chris Rock sketch, but YouTube requires age certification because infantile Leftists might accidentally view the clip and be triggered.
So here’s a similar sentiment voiced by Morgan Freeman, in the classic movie Glory.
“Karmelo Anthony supporters”? Since when did murderers start acquiring followers, is that a leftover from the Charles Manson murders?
Never saw the attraction myself.
They donated half a million as a reward.
Metcalfs parents ought to file civil suit to claim that cash. Just sayin…..
And they should do it immediately and get a hold on the monies – or what’s left of it after buying new house and a new car.
Pretty sure the family already blew that wad. That’s why they had to have a court appointed attorney.
The deed for the house would be a good start.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Luigi Mangione
It’s a sickness.
Young black American males, ages 15-30 and raised in a broken home with no father are some of the most dangerous people in America.
Right up there with white, leftist, college educated women.
yep and yep.
Especially the ones that call themselves “they”.
White, leftist, college educated women are the enablers for Young Black males.
One can’t succeed without the other! 😎
They are getting younger and younger too. Children under age 10 involved in armed crimes. It’s happening daily.
There seems to be a major component of morality and intellect missing from a large segment of our populace. They perpetuate this deficit at home with their many offspring. We have no answers in stopping them as law enforcement is handcuffed by judges with the very same moral deficit. The worst part is, this segment sways elections.
It will turn kinetic… it can’t help but escalate.
avoid them, they can’t behave
I don`t believe race should matter. Capital crime, capital punishment. Bring back public executions and make a day of it. Morbid? Yes, I suppose but it would deter others like nothing else would. Take a life, day in court, guilty, swift punishment and move on.
Spot on.
On TV.
I had to do a report way back in the day in school before the wall came down about Soviet Justice system. At the time I read that USSR had very very small number of rape cases across the country. I read that this was due to the law and punishment established. Basically when trial concluded, if perp was found guilty, they were taken outside and shot. Being young at the time I believed what I had researched. Now I wonder if that was true. But what a hell of a deterrent. Maybe Sundance can get some feedback from his contacts old enough to remember.
so I agree public executions would be a heck of a deterrent………something has to change
Its working in Iran.
Three hours to deliberate? I wonder if they were done in 10 minutes and thought it would look better to wait a few hours.
Paperwork and potty break. Elect a foreman.
They went to deliberate at 10:54am…they needed their lunch break. That took 45 min to an hour?
And picking the jury foreman and the subsequent jury paperwork…you know there has to be a lot of that…
Say his Name….yep….another mis-raised entitled “BLACK THUG”
sorry – redundant
Poor timing.
The upcoming riots are surely going to interfere with the FIFA Cup. 🙏🇺🇸
3 hours fast deliberation. Evidence must have been pretty damning.
The evidence was clear and concise, and there was no real defense other than “It was a public stadium and he could sit wherever he wanted” and “He was surrounded and had to defend himself.”
They probably reviewed the evidence and came to a verdict in an hour, then waited two more so as not to appear as though they rushed it.
Don’t forget. Anthony was seen rifling through the teams back packs when he was told to leave the tent. As reported he was told to leave the tent some 15 times. Anthony said, “You can’t make me,” From there the violence took place by a knife wielding Anthony that led to the murder of the other boy.
— surly
— chip on his shoulder
— knife in his bag
A Passion Plea?
Done out of sudden emotion, so no premeditation.
But he brought the knife, and kept his hand in his backpack during the argument. Shows some long-term thinking.
Over on TGP, there were some pretty gun graphic photos of this dear sweet boy/s might have been in the comments section, he is no stranger to guns, apparently.
“I don’t know what to tell my 5 boys!”
Tell them not to stab people ma’am.
JUSTICE WAS DONE!!
It was the ONLY verdict!
The family knew this would be the outcome. But did a “go fund me” and raised 620,000- then got their son a public defender….. wild times
I’m surprised the judge was willing to appoint a public defender under those circumstances. Usually you have to prove poverty.
Those who believe their identity is based on the color of their skin, judge others the same way.
tribalism will also force the lowest common denominator.
the crowd and mob is almost always wrong.
almost always.
the first tea party…not wrong…definitely a mob.
the second tea party…much more political and organized…definitely a mob
the J6’ers…patriots all with a few scoundrels who we know have a dubious agenda. definitely a mob.
mob is not the bad word.
it is what you do, what you say, how you act, how you ARTICULATE AND ORGANIZE ABOVE YOUR OWN PAYGRADE, RACE, PARTY AND CLASS…because you have a truth that is real that no one can ignore.
this mob…this inarticulate bumbling spontaneous wildly emotional and reckless bunch (not group)…not the same
not the same at all.
it has always been a lie that we are all equal. That has never been true. We determine in our laws that we are to be TREATED EQUALLY, FAIRLY…but that is not the same thing as “we are all equal”. we are not.
Are we all God’s creation…absolutely. but the man dying next to jesus Christ was a scoundrel, a murderer. His sentence was death as it should be. God promised him grace as he does to anyone whom repents. He repented in his last hours hanging there in what can only be described as some of the most horribly painful state of body and mind. Yet, he realized who the Son of God was next to him…imagine that. A man convicted of the worst kind of crime…a murder…and on his dying day…in the most extreme moment of his physical and mental and emotional pain. What does he do?
he surrenders.
This mob also has the same promise of hope, should each person realize there is a greater plan for their lives…not to cling to tribalism and the flesh and the moment of temptations and anger and hate and violence. But renewal…a rebirth of the spirit.
I will pray for these people. It matters that we have empathy, not not reckless inaction. My smart eyes reveal at least half of this bunch have either been in jail for serious crimes, or have warrants.
But yet, God will never abandon the prayers of even a murderer. I can think of no better reason to believe in the LORD OF ALL LORDS.
God Bless America
My comment disappeared. It was regarding the fraudulent claim that a go-fund-me account raised over 600k that would be used for Karmelo’s defense.
Instead he used none of it for legal representation but was appointed a public defender instead.
He’s a fraud and a murderer.
Didn’t the parents buy a new house with the money? 🤔
That’s the grift. Remember, Home of the Fraud, Land of the Grift. It’s everywhere.