Accused Austin Metcalf killer won't face death penalty or life without parole: DA

Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old fishy successful the stabbing decease of Frisco, Texas way prima Austin Metcalf, cannot look the decease punishment oregon beingness without parole, according to Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis. 

Willis explained to WFAA that prosecutors cannot question the decease punishment oregon beingness without parole due to the fact that of a Supreme Court ruling successful a lawsuit called Roper v. Simmons from 2005, that excludes juveniles from those punishments. 

"The Supreme Court has said not lone tin you not question the decease punishment against idiosyncratic who committed a transgression erstwhile they’re 17, you can’t adjacent get them beingness without parole," helium said. "That would not beryllium thing we could bash adjacent if we wanted to."

Karmelo Anthony, 17, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. (FOX 4)

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Anthony has been charged with first-degree execution successful Metcalf's death. The brace went to antithetic Frisco precocious schools, but were some astatine Kuykendall Stadium connected April 2 for a way meet, wherever the alleged stabbing occurred. 

Asked whether a proceedings would beryllium moved extracurricular of Collin County, Willis says that's up to the judge. 

"Ultimately, that’ll beryllium a judge’s determination to marque astatine the clip of trial, but, yes, this happened successful Collin County. I privation Collin County citizens to beryllium capable to determine this," helium said.

Fox News has confirmed that Anthony's enslaved hearing, wherever his caller attorneys program to reason against his existent $1 cardinal bail, is scheduled for Monday greeting astatine 10:00 a.m. 

Austin Metcalf, 17, was stabbed to decease astatine a Texas way meet. (Jeff Metcalf)

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While the proceeding volition beryllium unfastened to the public, cameras volition not beryllium allowed wrong the courtroom and determination volition beryllium nary unrecorded watercourse of the proceedings. 

An online fundraising run for Anthony has climbed steadily each week, and has present surpassed $300,000.

Meanwhile, Dallas activistic and caput of an enactment called Next Generation Action Network Dominique Alexander met with Frisco Police Tuesday down closed doors. 

Police refused to remark aft the meeting, but Alexander held a property league and told reporters helium asked constabulary for accrued extortion of the Anthony home, claiming that their code had been maliciously shared online. 

"We person saw truthful galore antithetic hateful images, conscionable hateful things and the Next Generation Action Network wants to reiterate Karmelo Anthony has a close to a just trial, unbiased and removed of radical hatred and bigotry," said Alexander.

Alexander has been captious of constabulary and the justness strategy successful the past. 

Next Generation Action Network held a "George Floyd Week" successful 2021 to commemorate Floyd's decease the anterior year, according to Spectrum News 1.

File photograph of Jeff Metcalf with his son, Austin Metcalf, a inferior astatine Memorial High School successful Frisco, who was stabbed successful the thorax allegedly by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial High School. (Courtesy Jeff Metcalf)

"The question for Black lives indispensable win, that everyone should beryllium protected, and that the statehood of policing indispensable change," helium told the quality outlet astatine the time. 

"Like, 1 of the things I ever accidental is that each victim, each household doesn't get the aforesaid attraction similar a George Floyd oregon a Breonna Taylor," helium said. "It does not mean that their issues are not important, it conscionable means that this oppressive strategy has won to suppress the facts astir the case."

Anderson did not instrumentality a remark request. 

The apprehension study from the incidental paints a wide representation of what the constabulary and witnesses assertion happened during the stabbing wrong the Memorial High School way team's tent. 

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16-year-old Austin Metcalf died astatine his way conscionable connected Wednesday aft being stabbed. (FOX DFW Chopper)

Metcalf reportedly told Anthony that helium needed to determination retired of the Memorial team's tent, a witnesser told Frisco police. The study noted that Anthony "grabbed his bag, opened it and reached wrong it" and said, "Touch maine and spot what happens."

Metcalf past pushed Anthony retired of the tent, according to the report. 

In the adjacent moment, the witnesser told constabulary that Anthony "reached into his container and the antheral took a weapon retired of the container and stabbed Austin."

A schoolhouse assets serviceman was the archetypal to respond to the scene, and handcuffed Anthony, noting that determination was humor connected the suspect's near mediate finger. 

Mugshot of Karmelo Anthony, left, and Austin Metcalf successful shot pads, right. (Fox DFW/Jeff Metcalf)

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"I was protecting myself," Anthony said. "He enactment his hands connected me."

One serviceman astatine the country referred to Anthony arsenic the alleged suspect, and Anthony made a "spontaneous statement," according to the report: "I'm not alleged, I did it."

Anthony besides asked the officers if Metcalf was "going to beryllium OK" and asked if what happened could beryllium considered "self-defense," the study said.

Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Brooke Taylor contributed to this report.