Father remembers teen fatally stabbed at Frisco track meet. ‘My pride and joy.’
The 17-year-old North Texas high school junior who was fatally stabbed at a Frisco ISD track meet Wednesday was an exceptional young man and a born leader, his family said.
Austin Metcalf had a 4.0 GPA and had been voted MVP on Frisco’s Memorial High School football team. He planned to attend college and play football, said Jeff Metcalf, the teen’s father. Some D1 colleges had already reached out to him.
Frisco police and firefighters responded to the stabbing about 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 2, at Kuykendall Stadium. Police said that a fight between two students resulted in one stabbing the other.
Witnesses describe how stabbing happened
Jeff Metcalf told the Star-Telegram that the track meet had been delayed due to the weather. All the students were gathering under tents organized by school, and Austin saw someone he didn’t recognize in the Memorial High School group, he said.
When Austin told the teen, who was from Centennial High School, that he was in the wrong place, the other student became defiant, witnesses told Austin’s father. No punches were thrown, but “words were exchanged,” Metcalf said.
Austin grabbed the other student’s backpack to move it, and the teen pulled out a knife and stabbed Austin in the heart, according to Jeff Metcalf.
“Senseless,” Metcalf said.
Austin’s identical twin, Hunter, was there when his brother was stabbed. He told his father that he put his hand over Austin’s heart to stop the bleeding, and Austin died in his arms.
Father recalls memories, last talk with son
Metcalf remembers the last conversation he had with his son. They talked over the phone the night before the track meet, and Austin was disappointed because he’d gotten a B on one of his tests. His dad tried to encourage him, but Austin said he needed to keep up his straight-A average.
“I love you, Dad,” he said at the end of their conversation. Those were the last words that Metcalf heard him say.
“He was my pride and joy. Both of them,” Metcalf said of Austin and Hunter.
Metcalf had taken his twin sons on fishing and hunting trips from the time they were small. He said this last weekend was one of their best trips yet. Austin was able to get his first hog.
“He was so excited,” his dad said. “It was such a cool story.”
Metcalf said he was diagnosed with cancer about nine years ago, and it was his two sons who gave him the motivation to keep going.
“My whole life revolved around my children,” he said.
Metcalf described Austin as loyal and loving and said he trusted everybody. About 1,700 people came out to honor him Wednesday night at a vigil at Hope Fellowship in Frisco.
The suspect, 17-year-old Frisco Centennial High School student Karmelo Anthony, is in custody. He faces a murder charge and is being held on $1 million bond, according to Collin County Jail records.
Austin’s family has set up a GoFundMe to help honor him and help his family heal.
“We will all remember him for the way he impacted others’ lives,” Jeff Metcalf wrote on the fundraiser site.
This story was originally published April 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM.
