Austin Metcalf’s tragic final words as he lay dying were revealed Thursday to in the highly charged murder case against Texas teen Karmelo Anthony.
“I’ve been stabbed,” Metcalf said after lifting his shirt to see he was wounded, prosecutor Bill Wirskye told jurors during opening statements in the Frisco case.
The 17-year-old victim then stumbled down a few rows of bleacher seating as his twin brother, Hunter Metcalf, went to his side – the sibling bleeding to death in Hunter’s arms, according to the Daily Mail.
Wirskye claimed Austin, who was stepping up to help his coach lead the track and field meet that day, asked Anthony to leave his team’s tent at the Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas that day.
“Touch me see what happens,” Anthony replied to Austin, the prosecutor claimed, according to local outlet NBC 5.
Initially Austin didn’t want to get into a fight “until [he] took the bait,” Wirskye claimed.
Anthony used a folding knife he pulled out of a bag and thrust it into Austin’s chest, who at first “didn’t even know he was stabbed,” Wirskye claimed.
When Hunter got to his brother he lifted his shirt and the twins “see a gaping hole in his chest,” the prosecutor told the jurors.
Meanwhile, Anthony tried to run but didn’t even make it out of the stadium as coaches stopped him. The alleged assailant told the coaches that Austin started it.
“As if it justifies the murder he just committed,” Wirskye alleged.
And when cops cuffed Anthony calling him an “alleged suspect” he told them: “I’m not alleged, I did it.”
Mike Howard, Anthony’s defense attorney who referred to his client as “Melo,” in his own opening statements told jurors that a hulking Austin initiated the confrontation after a much smaller Anthony went under Austin’s team tent to get out of the rain.
“Melo defended himself with that knife,” Howard said. “He ran, he didn’t stab again, he dropped the knife, he didn’t stab anyone else.”
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