His Name is Austin Metcalf: White High School Football Star ‘Randomly’ Stabbed to Death by Black Teenager at Track Meet
We don’t have to live this way. We really don’t.
You can just point out the reality of interracial crime and realize that 100 years ago, our ancestors in what was then a nearly 90 percent white nation had laws in place to protect the civilization white individuals collectively created from a problem that followed black people when they fled Jim Crow in the South. [National Affairs: THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION, TIME Magazine, April 21, 1958]:
THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North’s big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes.
In 1,551 U.S. cities, according to the FBI tally for 1956, Negroes, making up 10% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 30% of all arrests, and 60% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm—murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In one city after another, the figures—where they are not hidden or suppressed by politicians—reveal a shocking pattern. Items:
New York (14% Negro). Of the prisoners confined in houses of detention last year to await court disposition of their cases, 44% of the males and 65% of the females were Negroes.
Chicago (15% Negro). In 1956 twice as many Negroes as whites—1,366 to 679—were arrested on charges of murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape and robbery.
Detroit (25% Negro). Two out of three prisoners held in the Wayne County jail are Negroes. Last month 62% of. the defendants presented for trial in Recorder’s Court were Negroes. Of last year’s 25,216 arrests resulting in prosecution, excluding traffic cases, Negroes accounted for 12,919.
Los Angeles (13% Negro). In 1956 Negroes accounted for 28% of all arrests, and 48% of the arrests for homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft.
San Francisco (7% Negro). The victims in 896 of last year’s 1,564 recorded robbery cases reported that the assailants were Negroes.
Negro leaders sometimes argue passionately that arrest statistics wildly distort the comparative incidence of crime among Negroes and whites because cops are more likely to arrest Negroes for petty crimes or on mere suspicion. Protests Executive Editor Charles Wartman of Detroit’s Michigan Chronicle, a Negro weekly: “The number of Negroes booked is at least partially indicative of subconscious if not conscious racial persecution on the part of police officers.”
But inequality of treatment by the police may actually tend to shrink rather than inflate the statistics of Negro crime. Says Newsman Wartman in the next breath: “When Negroes violate social morals—sex, drinking, gambling—white cops bypass this as ‘typically Negro.’ ” Many Negro leaders protest that the police are far from diligent enough in dealing with crimes committed against Negroes—and Negroes are the victims in the great majority of Negro crimes of violence. Since Negroes, even when they are victims or innocent bystanders, are often wary of calling the police, many offenses of disorder and assault go unreported when committed by Negroes in the depths of a ghetto.
We are all afraid to say it out loud, so I’ll do it for you: Austin Metcalf was a white teenager. Karmelo Anthony is a black teenager. At a track meet in Texas, the black teenager stabbed the white teenager to death in a confrontation without provocation. Austin died in his twin brother’s, Hunter, arms.
His Name is Austin Metcalf. [Man says son was stabbed in the heart at high school track meet, died in twin’s arms: A 17-year-old student has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, NBCDFW.com, April 2, 2025]:
A high school student is facing a murder charge after Frisco police say he fatally stabbed a student during a confrontation at a high school track meet on Wednesday morning.
Police confirmed to NBC 5 that they were called to Kuykendall Stadium at about 10 a.m., after a 17-year-old stabbed a 17-year-old during a confrontation.
“Despite lifesaving measures by police and fire personnel, including CPR and the administration of blood, the 16-year-old victim died,” police said Wednesday afternoon.
Jeff Metcalf spoke with NBC 5 Tuesday afternoon and said his son, Austin Metcalf, was killed when another student armed with a knife got upset after being told he was in the wrong spot.
Metcalf said his son didn’t know the student who attacked him and that Austin’s twin brother, Hunter, was nearby when the confrontation took place and not only saw his brother get stabbed but tried to stop the bleeding.
Austin, he says, was born two minutes before his brother Hunter.
The two were inseparable.
“They were twins, identical twins, and his brother was holding on to him, trying to make it stop bleeding, and he died in his brother’s arms,” Jeff Metcalf said. “I rushed up there and I saw him on the gurney and I could tell — they said he wasn’t breathing. I could see all the blood, and I saw where the wound was, and I was very concerned, so I had to find his brother, and we rushed to the hospital. And we prayed, and it’s God’s plan, I don’t understand it, but they weren’t able to save him. This is murder.”
Jeff Metcalf said his son had a 4.0, was MVP of the football team and had a bright future that included going to college.
“He was on the right track,” Jeff Metcalf said. “He was loved by many. He was a leader.”
“I’m not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have? What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in the wrong place and they asked him to move and he bowed up. This is murder,” Jeff Metcalf said. “You know what, I already forgive this person. Already. God takes care of things. God is going to take care of me. God is going to take care of my family.”
The victim’s father is left with memories, including the hunting trips the three have taken since the boys were two.
This past weekend, the trio went hunting, hoping Austin would finally get his first hog. He did, said his father.
The family has started a GoFundMe to help cover funeral arrangements and to help Austin’s brother with counseling and school.
Frisco police said they arrested and charged 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony with Metcalf’s murder. Police said Anthony’s bond has not yet been set and it’s unclear if he’s obtained an attorney to speak on his behalf.
“The Frisco Police Department grieves with all those affected by this devastating loss and extends its deepest condolences to the victim’s family, students, and staff who are experiencing unimaginable pain,” the department said Wednesday afternoon. “The department is collaborating with the Frisco Independent School District and will continue to provide any support they need during this incredibly difficult time.”
Police did not say where the stabbing took place at the stadium, but from Texas Sky Ranger, several police officers were seen investigating an area in the stands not far from the track.
A spokesperson for the Frisco ISD said the 11-5A championship district track meet, which included more than 100 students from eight schools, took place at the stadium Wednesday morning. The district said that moments after the stabbing, the stadium was immediately secured, the meet was suspended, and all students were returned to their home campuses “with expediency.”
Suburbs exist for a reason. Good schools exist for a reason. We all have learned to speak in coded language so as not to offend the delicate racial sensibilities governing proper etiquette in our increasingly multi-racial nation. But the problem TIME Magazine documented in 1958 has been the driving force behind every private decision a white family makes in determining where they will live out their public life. America’s changing racial demographics mean we are running out of lily-white suburbs for white people to cosplay as Americans in in 2025.
It’s time for the honest conversation about race we’ve refused to have for more than a century, because we fear being called a racist more than we wish to create communities where we can know our children will safely return from a track meet without being in the wrong place at the wrong time.