The gloves have come off in the ongoing courtroom drama involving convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony.
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New details and troubling backgrounds for Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony revealed in retrial hearing
The gloves have come off in the ongoing courtroom drama involving convicted murderer
Karmelo Anthony.
Both prosecutors and defense attorneys are using a
motion for a new trial hearing to expose the violent backgrounds of both Karmelo Anthony and
Austin Metcalf.
There was a private off-record agreement to keep the sordid backgrounds of both Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf from the jury and the public so that the murder trial would focus solely on
what happened under the tent at that Frisco high school track meet last year.
Now both sides are releasing those background reports, with the defense going first by going over 20 pages of Austin Metcalf's behavioral history.
CBS News Texas has also learned new details about Austin Metcalf's background from court documents.
Austin Metcalf and his brother Hunter Metcalf were once caught spray painting graffiti, including "KKK kill all blacks" and "Heil Hitler," along with the N-word, and were sentenced to 12 months of juvenile probation, court documents show.
Records reveal they reportedly told authorities, "we did some dumb stuff" and "we did some vandalism."
There are several documented instances of Austin Metcalf using racial slurs in school, and in 2023, Austin Metcalf was accused of bullying a Black student in class.
In 2018, according to court documents, while still in elementary school, Austin Metcalf and his brother were accused of bullying and assaulting a female, which led to Austin Metcalf's arrest.
During an argument in 2024 with another female student, Austin Metcalf allegedly "knocked her to the ground and punched her in the stomach," reports state, and he was also kicked out of a football game and later texted someone, "I was about to beat the (expletive) out of those kids."
At a previous track meet, when another student alerted Austin Metcalf that someone not on their team "behind our bench was talking wild," Austin Metcalf reportedly replied, "Kill that mf," court documents state.
During the 2023-2024 school year, he received in-school suspension twice.
School disciplinary records from April 2022 to May 2024 reveal that he reportedly called a teacher the B-word, or used profanity and that he told a school official that "He couldn't control it and wasn't aware that it was coming out of his mouth."
In 2024, on at least five occasions, records show, Austin Metcalf saw a counselor regarding his anger and rage during a football game.
In 2021, he was banned from attending basketball games for a season after yelling profanity at a player.
Court documents state that Austin Metcalf was also suspended after he and another student were talking about bringing a gun to school the following day.
But the never-before-released details of Karmelo Anthony's teenage years in Louisiana up to the day of his arrest for murder are also disturbing.
On the day that Karmelo Anthony would fatally stab Austin Metcalf, prosecutors say he sent a text message at 1 a.m., which said, "I'm lowk on the verge" and then emphasized it.
Later in the morning on April 2, 2025, and hours before Karmelo Anthony would kill Austin Metcalf with a knife at a high school track meet, prosecutors said Karmelo Anthony's girlfriend reported to a Centennial High School staff member that Karmelo Anthony was "engaging in stalking behavior, to include, but not limited to, driving by her home and refusing to allow her to end their relationship."
Also in a 75-page filing, prosecutors say Karmelo Anthony had previously been accused of stealing his girlfriend's phone and in October 2024, wrote a "to-do" list for his girlfriend about how to deal with quote "weirdos" which included the line "say sum slick like my bf kill people".
There are also text messages where he admits on at least two occasions to punching girls in the face.
Prosecutors also found text messages from 2021 between Karmelo Anthony and another student about robbing someone for $300.
There are other text messages where Karmelo Anthony talks about a fight and punching someone "so hard he had to stop fighting."
In 2023, prosecutors say Karmelo Anthony told a friend he was going to vandalize someone's house in Austin, Texas, saying, "I just feel like it, I gotta grudge".
In 2021, Karmelo Anthony told a friend he had been suspended from school for three days for fighting, saying, "they said next time I do sum I get recommended for expulsion", court documents show.
In a text conversation with a friend in 2023, prosecutors have messages from Karmelo Anthony in which he wrote "Imma shoot the school up tmr" "with my blick," but later sent messages saying "I would never" "actually do that."
In a 2024 text thread, prosecutors say Karmelo Anthony admitted to carrying a firearm telling friend before a party that he would have "the gun in my pocket".
According to the documents, there are other message threads in which Anthony also mentions carrying a gun.
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