Karmelo Anthony juror left open mouthed with shock at sight of Austin Metcalf’s body, as killer teen’s lawyers suggest victim impaled himself on knife: Live updates

A female juror seated on Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial was left visibly shocked after Collin County’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr Elizabeth Ventura presented autopsy photo evidence of Austin Metcalf’s heart to the court on Saturday.

The medical examiner explained that Metcalf had one stab wound to the chest that pierced the bone in the center of his torso and the sack that surrounded his heart.

The stab wound, she said, was 2 inches in length and ‘completely went through the heart wall.’

Anthony looked away as his lawyers reviewed the photographs.

Metcalf’s parents and most of his family left the courtroom before the evidence was shown.

Metcalf was declared dead at the hospital on the morning of April 2 shortly after he was stabbed at the Frisco track meet by Anthony.

The medical examiner says the wound Metcalf sustained not survivable and that the cause of death was homicide.

Later in the day, Anthony’s defense attorney tried to suggest that Metcalf might have impaled himself on the young teen’s knife before court was adjourned.

During cross-examination, prosecutors told Karmelo Anthony’s teammate that surveillance video proved he wrongly told police that Anthony was surrounded by a group when he stabbed Austin Metcalf.

‘Now you know you’re wrong after seeing the video back in April,’ the prosecutor said.

Prosecutors played the video for the teen and asked, ‘You were wrong, right?’

‘I’m not sure. I couldn’t tell what happened in the video,’ the teen said.

In opening arguments on Thursday in Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial, prosecutors said the baby-faced teen used a folding knife to stab Austin Metcalf at the time of their dispute.

Metcalf lifted up his shirt once he realized he had been knifed and exclaimed, ‘I’ve been stabbed,’ before tumbling down several rows of bleachers.

Prosecutors said his brother Hunter rushed to his aid as Anthony ran from the scene and later tried to blend into groups of kids who were fleeing the stadium.

‘If you’re scared and running away in self-defense, why toss the knife,’ the prosecutor said.

‘That knife wasn’t used to protect him from harm. That knife was used to harm another. Find this man guilty of first-degree murder,’ he continued, pointing at Anthony.

The 911 call made after Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf was played in court on Thursday.

The call was made by Coach Joshua Rebmann, football coach at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas, who was at the track meet.

Redmann told the operator that an athlete had been stabbed and was not breathing as people yelled in the background.

The coach could then be heard yelling, ‘Stay with me, Austin! Stay with me, Austin!’

Rebmann said he made the comment as he watched Metcalf’s eyes roll back in his head.

His last breath could then be heard in the recording.

As the phone call was played in court, Metcalf’s mother could be seen leaning forward in her seat, head down, as others in the gallery cried.

Metcalf’s father was also seen wiping away tears with a handkerchief.

But Anthony displayed no emotion as he looked straight forward and down.

The defense called a 17-year-old Centennial High School student as its first witness on Monday.

The teen, who is not being named due to his age, was a teammate of Karmelo Anthony on the track and football teams.

He testified that he spent a little time with Anthony on the morning of the stabbing and said that he seemed normal.

The teen said he was on the field warming up when the stabbing happened.

‘What caught my attention was the people looking back,’ he said. ‘That’s when I saw a push.’

‘Arms, I saw the arms go out. I didn’t know who it was and what had happened.’

He said he thought a fight might break out under the tent because there were lots of kids underneath.

Then he heard yelling. ‘It got super loud. People started standing up and were like, “Whoa, what happened,”‘ he said.

The teen testified he saw Anthony running from the area, then he saw him on the field with a coach.

‘He was crying and there is a coach comforting him,’ the teen said of Anthony. ‘He was like, distraught. I think is the best way to describe it.

‘I was hearing him say, “I told him not to touch me.”‘

Extraordinary scenes unfolded during the first week of testimony in the State of Texas vs. Karmelo Anthony, the black teenager accused of fatally stabbing white football and track athlete Austin Metcalf during a confrontation at a high school track meet in April 2025.

Due to intense media and public interest, the court hand selected nine news outlets to attend the trial, including the Daily Mail.

Members of the Black Panthers were spotted outside the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, a Dallas suburb, on Monday.

The trial has sparked racially-charged protests, with Anthony supporters declaring the teenager should ‘walk free.’

On Friday, members of the Proud Boys were seen at the courthouse.

Multiple witnesses trashed Karmelo Anthony’s claim that he acted in self-defense when he stabbed Austin Metcalf on the witness stand Friday.

On Thursday, an attorney for Anthony said his client did not instigate the fight with Metcalf, telling the jury at the start of a packed murder trial near Dallas that it was instead an act of self-defense.

However, a series of witnesses, many of them teammates of either Anthony or Metcalf, appeared to contradict the defense on Friday.

The Daily Mail was one of only two news organizations granted access to surveillance footage of the deadly incident.

The 40-minute surveillance video, recorded from a stationary camera on the opposite side of the football field, captures the ten minutes leading up to the attack and the desperate efforts by Austin Metcalf’s twin brother and others to save his life before paramedics arrived.

Jurors will see footage of the horrific incident as evidence in the murder trial of Metcalf’s killer, Karmelo Anthony.

Anthony has admitted to stabbing Metcalf, but insists it was in self-defense.

The murder trial of Karmelo Anthony will resume at the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, a Dallas suburb, today at 9am CT/10am ET.

He is accused of murdering Austin Metcalf, 17, in April 2025 after stabbing the athlete at a high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium. Metcalf bled out in his brother’s arms.

The state rested its case on Saturday, and the defense began calling its witnesses.

Prosecutors claim the attack was a ‘senseless murder,’ but Anthony has pleaded not guilty and insisted he was acting in self-defense.

The case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding it quickly became racially fraught.

Notably, no black jury members were selected in the high-profile trial.

The Texas teenager on trial for murdering a 17-year-old high school athlete tossed the knife and tried to blend in with the crowd after stabbing his victim, prosecutors revealed.

Karmelo Anthony, 19, appeared baby-faced in the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, a Dallas suburb, on Thursday, wearing a gray suit with a purple shirt and appeared clean-shaven with a short haircut.

He is accused of murdering Austin Metcalf, 17, in April 2025 after stabbing the athlete at a high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium. Metcalf bled out in his brother’s arms.

The case shocked America and the discussion surrounding it quickly became racially fraught.

On Friday, a 17-year-old boy who was on Austin Metcalf’s track team testified that Karmelo Anthony was provoking Metcalf before the football star pushed him.

During the back and forth between the pair, Anthony had his hands in the backpack, the boy said.

After Anthony stabbed Metcalf in retaliation, he threw the knife up the bleachers and ran away. The young witness says he did not expect the stabbing to occur.

‘Austin fell onto the bleacher onto this back. And then he got up and went against the fence and guard rail and his chest was all bloody,’ he explained. ‘I think he said, “oh my god.”‘

Prosecutors asked the boy how hard Metcalf pushed Anthony, to which he explained that it was ‘somewhere in between a light shove and a hard shove.’

He confirmed that Austin’s brother Hunter was at the bottom of the tent at the time of the incident and that no others ganged up on Anthony.

The witness called the ambulance shortly after the knifing. 911 audio was played to the court where he can be heard saying ‘my friend’s bleeding everywhere.’