Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison in McKinney, Texas, on Tuesday after a Collin County jury found him guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf at a 2025 high school track meet. The punishment followed a little under three hours of deliberation and closed a trial that had drawn intense attention far beyond suburban Dallas.
The news came after a week-long case in which defence lawyers argued Anthony, who was 17 at the time and is now 19, acted in self-defence during a confrontation in the bleachers at a Frisco track meet.
