Choking again tears, the grieving Texas mom and twin brother of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf struggled to elucidate the devastation they really feel after he was stabbed to demise in a terrifying scene at a monitor meet in Frisco, Texas.
Austin Metcalf, a junior at Memorial Excessive College in Frisco, was stabbed within the chest allegedly by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial Excessive College.
The altercation reportedly started as a seating dispute because the groups waited for the delayed competitors to start.
The suspect has been arrested and charged with homicide.
“My son is gone, and I don’t really have words,” Meghan Metcalf wept Thursday on “The Will Cain Show.” “He’s just going to be so missed by mostly our family, but this whole community has really wrapped their arms around us. If I could say anything to the nation, I would say to make sure that you just hug your babies tight, because you don’t know when [is] the last time you get to do it.”
Austin was “extremely smart” and a “highly recruited” soccer participant, and his twin brother Hunter remembered him as “just a great person overall” who was “always there to check on me and keep me straight, so I wouldn’t get in trouble.”
Hunter Metcalf recounted the tragedy Thursday on “The Will Cain Show.”
He defined that the brothers seen the suspect close to their workforce tent.
When the brother tried to query the suspect, the scenario escalated, he stated.
“My brother stepped in. He started being how he always is. We’re just brothers, just having my back. Things started getting more, like, higher intensity, and the kid said some, like, aggressive stuff — like, reckless stuff — and Austin tried to handle the problem,” Hunter stated, recounting Austin’s closing moments.
“I whipped my head around, and then all of a sudden I see him running down the bleachers just grabbing his chest… I put my hand on there, tried to make it [the bleeding] stop, and I grabbed his head and I looked in his eyes. I just saw his soul leave, and it took my soul, too.”
The incident occurred at about 10 a.m. at Kuykendall Stadium on the College Interscholasic League’s District 11-5A championship meet.
Anthony attends Frisco Centennial, roughly 7 miles away from Frisco Memorial.
In response to the Frisco Unbiased College District, the meet was suspended shortly after the incident.
The ISD added that the stadium “was immediately secured, and students were released and sent back to their home campus on FISD buses with expediency.”
In the meantime, the Metcalf household is grappling with rage and grief over the sudden lack of Austin.
“I am so angry at that boy. It’s just not fair,” Meghan cried out.
The Metcalf household’s church held a vigil in Austin’s honor on Wednesday night time, drawing lots of of individuals.
“Seventeen years, my best friend, just there in the blink of an eye, I lost him. So I’m not at that point to forgive and forget, but eventually I will,” Hunter stated.
“I just pray for [the suspect’s] family,” he added. “I pray that they understand what we’re going through as well.”
A GoFundMe web page was began by Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, to assist the household heal.
