Slain Texas teen Austin Metcalf’s home swatted hours after tense press conference showdown

Jeff Metcalf, the begetter of slain Frisco, Texas, way prima Austin Metcalf, told Fox News Digital his location was swatted Thursday night. 

"I tin corroborate that past nighttime our officers responded to a gunshot telephone successful the 8000 artifact of Hickory Street involving the Metcalf family, which turned retired to beryllium swatting," the Frisco Police Department (FPD) confirmed. 

It happened a fewer hours aft an incendiary property league hosted by the spokesperson for the household of Metcalf's alleged killer, Karmelo Anthony.

Anthony is charged with murdering Metcalf aft the 2 17-year-olds got into a quality nether a structure astatine a precocious schoolhouse way conscionable April 2. Anthony allegedly stabbed Metcalf, who died successful his duplicate brother's arms.

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

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Swatting is erstwhile a 911 telephone is made, usually to study a fake convulsive crime, to get constabulary and sometimes adjacent SWAT teams, to respond to the code fixed by the caller. It has progressively been utilized arsenic an intimidation maneuver to people high-profile individuals and governmental rivals. 

Thursday's property league was scheduled aft Anthony was released from the Collin County Jail Monday erstwhile his enslaved was reduced from $1 cardinal to $250,000. The arguable determination led to questions astir however hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for the Anthony household online were being spent. 

Jeff Metcalf attended the property conference, which rapidly devolved into chaos aft Dominique Alexander, caput of the activistic radical Next Generation Action Network retained to talk connected behalf of the Anthony family, criticized Metcalf's beingness determination astatine the outset of the event. 

"What we've seen astatine the opening of this property conference, of the begetter being astatine this property conference, these are my words — don't punctuation anybody — is simply a disrespect to the dignity of his son," Alexander said. 

Dominique Alexander of the Next Generation Action Network hosted a property league connected behalf of Karmelo Anthony's household Thursday, April 17., 2025. (Next Generation Action Network via Facebook)

Metcalf arrived astatine the property league astatine its scheduled commencement clip but was threatened with transgression charges if helium did not leave. He near with a constabulary escort from the Dallas Police Department. 

"Next Generation Action Network from the opening has respected the nonaccomplishment of life, nary substance our sentiment of it. We person kept our sentiment close," Alexander said. "We person not attacked. We person not shared the accusation that was shared with america astir Austin Metcalf due to the fact that we respect the dignity of beingness and loss."

Alexander aboriginal brought contention into the discussion.

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"What [Jeff Metcalf] has felled [sic] into is the governmental operatives that privation to marque this happening a governmental happening of hatred and yet bigotry and yet racism," helium said. "We person blimpish operatives that person been posting nonstop astir this case." 

Those comments mostly overshadowed the intent of the property conference, which was to acceptable the grounds consecutive connected however much than $475,000 from a GiveSendGo fundraiser raised for the Anthony household volition beryllium spent. 

Alexander said nary of the wealth has been spent, and Anthony's mother, Karla Hayes, whose speechmaking of a connection prepared by the household lawyer was besides expected to beryllium a absorption of the conference, confirmed that.

Karmelo Anthony's mother, Kayla Hayes, speaks astatine a property league Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Next Generation Action Network via Facebook)

"Our household has been nether attack," she said. "Whatever you think, what happened betwixt Karmelo and the Metcalf boy, my 3 younger children, my hubby and I didn't bash thing to merit to beryllium threatened, harassed and lied about.

"Our code and my husband's erstwhile employer's code has been enactment connected each societal media platforms. My hubby had to instrumentality a permission of lack due to the fact that he's acrophobic of what whitethorn hap to our family."

Alexander aboriginal called Anthony's opponents bigots. 

"Because these racist bigots effort to forestall america from lasting up for our baby, our boy, helium should beryllium afforded the aforesaid rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had, Daniel Penny and each the radical who person claimed immoderate their defence was. He should beryllium afforded the aforesaid right," Alexander said.

Karmelo Anthony, the fishy successful the stabbing decease of Texas way prima Austin Metcalf, walks retired of the Collin County Jail April 14, 2025. (KDFW)

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"Nobody successful the nationalist media has 1 video, but we got the video of Kyle Rittenhouse with an AK-47 shooting 3 radical successful the back," helium said. "We got that, and helium raised much than $2 cardinal publicly, and cipher said thing astir that."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Alexander. 

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Metcalf has tried to code down the governmental rhetoric since the April 2 stabbing.

He antecedently told Fox News, "I privation to clarify thing close disconnected to commencement due to the fact that I've already heard immoderate rumors and gossip. This was not a contention thing. This is not a governmental thing.

"Do not politicize this. It's not … this is simply a quality being thing. This idiosyncratic made a atrocious prime and affected some his household and my household forever."