After Texas teenager Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of killing fellow high school athlete Austin Metcalf at a track meet, the victim’s twin brother directly addressed his sibling’s killer in court.
Anthony, 19, was sentenced to 35 years in prison during a hearing on Tuesday, June 9. After his sentence was revealed, Metcalf’s twin brother, Hunter Metcalf, shared a powerful message with Anthony during a victim’s impact statement.
“You took a son, a brother, a friend, and my best friend, from this world. You took someone from me who was supposed to be an uncle, godfather to my kids,” Hunter,18, emotionally said, according to CBS Texas. “Now I want everything taken from you.”
He continued, “Eventually your name will be forgotten. But my brother’s memory will live on.”
Anthony was found guilty of first-degree murder for Austin’s death at age 17shortly before he received his sentence.
The deadly incident took place at a high school track meet in April 2025. Police said that Anthony, who was also 17 at the time, attacked Austin after the victim asked him to move from beneath a tent that was designated for his track team at the meet.
A witness claimed to authorities that Anthony then responded by taking a knife out of his backpack and saying, “Touch me and see what happens.”
Austin then allegedly touched Anthony and tried to physically move him, which was when Anthony pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest.
Anthony spoke to a responding officer and admitted to stabbing him, though insisted throughout the trial that it was all in self defense.
Not only did Hunter speak during the trial, but so did both of Austin’s parents.
“We were robbed!” Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, told Anthony before he directed his son’s killer to make eye contact with him. “Don’t look down!”
Jeff continued, “You failed your parents, you failed yourself, and you failed society … You don’t belong in this community. You’re going to prison. I forgave you the day it happened. I don’t forgive what you did. You can’t look me in the eyes but you can stab my f****ing son!”
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Austin’s mother, Meghan Metcalf, also addressed Anthony and said he should “feel lucky” that he was only sentenced to 35 years in prison because she was “sentenced to a life without my son.”
Meghan went on to call Austin a “peacemaker” and a “protector” before she recalled the final morning she spent with her son before his death.
“There was a part of him you can never take from me, the strength I still get from him every day, because I know what it was like to be loved by him,” Meghan said. “My son was murdered. He didn’t just die. He was taken from us. Just as he was starting to live.”
