Choking again tears, the grieving Texas mom and twin brother of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf struggled to clarify the devastation they really feel after he was stabbed to dying in a terrifying scene at a monitor meet in Frisco, Texas.
“My son is gone, and I do not actually have phrases,” Meghan Metcalf wept on “The Will Cain Present” Thursday. “He is simply going to be so missed by largely our household, however this complete group has actually wrapped their arms round us. If I might say something to the nation, I’d say to just be sure you simply hug your infants tight. As a result of you do not know when [is] the final time you get to do it.”
Austin Metcalf, a junior at Memorial Excessive Faculty in Frisco, was stabbed within the chest allegedly by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial Excessive Faculty. 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.
GRIEVING TEXAS FATHER SPEAKS OUT AFTER SON WAS STABBED TO DEATH AT HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET
Austin was “extraordinarily sensible” and a “extremely recruited” soccer participant, and his twin brother Hunter remembered him as “only a nice individual general” who was “at all times there to verify on me and maintain me straight, so I would not be in hassle.”
Hunter Metcalf recounted the unthinkable tragedy on “The Will Cain Present” Thursday. He defined that the brothers seen the suspect close to their workforce tent. When the brother tried to query the suspect, the state of affairs escalated.
“My brother stepped in. He began being how he at all times is. We’re simply brothers, simply having my again. Issues began getting extra like greater depth and the child mentioned some like aggressive stuff, like reckless stuff, and Austin tried to deal with the issue,” Hunter mentioned, recounting Austin’s ultimate moments.
“I whipped my head round after which swiftly I see him operating down the bleachers simply grabbing his chest…I put my hand on there, tried to make it [the bleeding] cease, and I grabbed his head and I appeared in his eyes. I simply noticed his soul go away, and it took my soul, too.”
17-year-old Austin Metcalf was killed throughout a deadly altercation at a monitor meet in Frisco, Texas. (Jeff Metcalf)
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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 accordance with the Frisco Unbiased Faculty District, the meet was suspended shortly after the incident. The ISD added that the stadium “was instantly secured, and college students had been launched and despatched again to their house 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’m so offended at that boy. It is simply not truthful,” Meghan cried out.
The Metcalf household’s church held a vigil in Austin’s honor on Wednesday night time, drawing a whole bunch of individuals.
“17 years, my greatest pal, simply there within the blink of a watch, I misplaced him. So I am not at that time to forgive and neglect, however finally I’ll,” Hunter mentioned.
“I simply pray for [the suspect’s] household. I pray that they perceive what we’re going by as nicely.”
A GoFundMe web page was began by Austin’s father, Jeff MetCalf, to assist the household heal.
Fox Information Digital’s Madison Colombo and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
