Karmelo Anthony, the teen who has admitted to stabbing and killing a fellow high school athlete at a track meet in Texas, has been indicted by a grand jury with first-degree murder.
Austin Metcalf, 17, bled out in his brother’s arms after the attack by Anthony.
Fricso, Texas police have said the incident stemmed from Metcalf asking Anthony to leave his team tent since he didn’t go to the same school.
Anthony, 17 at the time of the killing and now 18, was arrested shortly after and charged by police with first degree murder in a case that has drawn national attention over race and privilege.
Today’s indictment comes after the local district attorney presented evidence to a grand jury, asking jurors to uphold the first-degree murder charge.
‘For weeks, my team has been presenting evidence to the grand jury. Today, I summarized that evidence, and I asked the Grand Jury to return a first degree murder indictment against Karmelo Anthony— which they did, Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said in a press release Tuesday afternoon.
‘With that indictment, the case now moves formally into the court system. From this point forward, we’ll continue doing our part — fully and fairly — to pursue justice under the law. The trial schedule will be set by the court. But when the time comes, we’ll be ready.’
Grand jury proceedings are held behind closed doors ,and unlike most court hearings, are not open to the public.
Austin Metcalf, 17, was stabbed and later died after a confrontation with Karmelo Anthony at an April 2 track meet in Frisco, Texas
Just last week, DailyMail.com reported on footage of the stabbing released by the Frisco Independent School District.
The video, recorded on a fixed camera at David Kuykendall Stadium, did not show any fighting, pushing or physical altercation between the boys.
Instead, the clip viewed by Daily Mail at school district headquarters, showed several people sitting under the Memorial High School team tent.
Without any kind of apparent escalation, people can be seen running and walking away from the tent.
Later, what appears to be Metcalf’s body is moved out of the stadium bleachers to a walkway near the bottom of the seating area.
While other video angles may exist, the surveillance reviewed appears to challenge the self-defense claim made by the murder suspect, offering little visible evidence that Anthony was in immediate danger before the attack.
