Karmelo Anthony Texts Reveal Chilling Knife Comment

Newly revealed court materials are offering a much broader look at Karmelo Anthony's alleged messages and behavior in the years before he fatally stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet. According to documents first obtained by the Daily Mail, the Karmelo Anthony texts include racist remarks about Black women, homophobic statements, violent threats and conversations involving weapons. The material was gathered by prosecutors but was not presented to the jury that convicted Anthony of murder. Among the messages cited in the newly surfaced records, Anthony allegedly wrote to a friend that he 'f**king [despises] black b***hes.' He continued, 'all tht wig glue getting to they f**king brain' and said they 'need to go die.' The records also reportedly contain messages from 2021, when Anthony was approximately 13 or 14. According to TMZ, Anthony told a friend that he supported Donald Trump rather than Joe Biden because he believed Trump did not like gay people and said he shared that view. Anthony allegedly added, 'These f**king gay people are f**king everything up.' The messages involving violence extended beyond those remarks. During Anthony's August hearing seeking a new trial, FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth reported that prosecutors presented cellphone evidence that had also been excluded from the original trial. Prosecutors said messages showed Anthony discussing fights, drugs, robbery and threats involving women and teachers. FOX 4 reported that one 2024 message to Anthony's girlfriend read, 'How many bullets you want coming out of your chest?' Prosecutors also presented evidence that Anthony threatened to stab his girlfriend in September 2024. Weeks later, according to the outlet's account of the hearing, he allegedly told her, 'When I stab someone, I'm gonna lick the blood off the blade.' Other messages presented during the hearing allegedly dated back several years. Prosecutors said Anthony discussed punching girls in 2021, threatened another boy by saying he was 'gonna go get a gun,' and later made a school shooting reference in 2023. FOX 4 reported that prosecutors characterized some of the earlier messages as evidence of an 'obsession with fighting.' The newly reported Karmelo Anthony texts were not the only material kept from the jury. According to TMZ, the court documents also include images of Anthony posing with firearms, including a handgun and an AK-47-style rifle. The Daily Mail report cited by TMZ also described a January 2025 video 'of himself pointing a gun at a house before running away on January 4, 2025.' Prosecutors also said Anthony discussed bringing weapons to school. TMZ reported that in November 2024 he allegedly told his then girlfriend about taking a gun and knife to school. During the August hearing, FOX 4 similarly reported that prosecutors introduced messages involving weapons, firearm modifications and other conduct that never became part of the evidence heard by trial jurors. That distinction matters because the murder case itself centered on what happened during a confrontation at the track meet, not Anthony's broader personal history. According to the Frisco Police Department, officers and emergency personnel responded around 10 a.m. on April 2, 2025, to a track meet in the 6900 block of Stadium Lane. Police said an altercation between two students ended with Metcalf being stabbed. Despite CPR and blood being administered at the scene, Metcalf died. Anthony, then 17, was taken into custody and charged with murder. At the June 2026 trial, the Associated Press reported that student witnesses described a confrontation that began after Anthony refused to leave a tent belonging to Metcalf's team during rainy conditions. Anthony's lawyers argued that he acted in self-defense after Metcalf confronted and pushed him, while prosecutors argued Anthony escalated the encounter and intentionally stabbed Metcalf in the chest. The jury rejected the self-defense argument, convicted Anthony of murder, and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. The reason jurors never heard the damaging background evidence became a major issue after the conviction. During Anthony's push for a new trial, both sides discussed what attorneys described as a 'gentleman's agreement.' According to AP and FOX 4, prosecutors and defense lawyers had agreed not to introduce damaging character evidence involving either teenager, allowing the trial to stay focused on the deadly confrontation itself. Anthony's new lawyers later argued that disputes surrounding that agreement affected his decision not to testify and contributed to an unfair trial. A judge denied his request for a new trial on August 22, 2026, leaving the conviction intact. His attorneys have said they intend to continue the appeals process. The release of the Karmelo Anthony texts does not change what evidence the jury considered when reaching its verdict, but it provides new context around evidence prosecutors possessed and deliberately left outside the original murder trial.