Texas teen’s murder trial opens with clashing portraits of a fatal stabbing

As the murder trial of a Texas teenager accused of stabbing a fellow high schooler at a track meet got underway Thursday, prosecutors and the defense attorney offered sharply divergent accounts of the events leading up to the death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf

As the murder trial of a Texas teenager accused of stabbing a fellow high schooler at a track meet got underway Thursday, prosecutors and the defense attorney offered sharply divergent accounts of the events leading up to the death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf.

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Karmelo Anthony, 19, was arrested last year and charged with stabbing Austin Metcalf, 17, during an altercation at a track meet at a Frisco high school, a sprawling suburb of Dallas.

Anthony’s attorney, Mike Howard, argued that his client acted in self-defense, reacting to “fear and chaos.”