A 17-year-old young man was stabbed to death at a high school track meet in Texas this week, in a story that didn’t get a whole lot of national media attention save for right-leaning outlets and conservative pundits over on social media.
Three guesses as to why. You’ll only need one.
Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old junior at Memorial High School in Frisco, was attending the University Interscholastic League's (UIL) District 11-5A championship track meet at the Frisco Independent School District's Kuykendall Stadium on Wednesday. At around 10 a.m., police responded to calls about an altercation between two people, and arrived to find Metcalf bleeding out from a stab wound. First responders performed CPR, but it wasn’t enough to save him.
The teen victim’s twin brother, Hunter, said he was there when his brother was stabbed, and that he tried to stop the bleeding. He then called his mom to tell her the tragic news.
Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old student at Frisco Centennial High School, has been arrested and charged with murder. According to Metcalf's brother, the altercation began when he and Austin came to their team tent and found Anthony sitting in it. They asked him to move, and he became belligerent. When Austin asked Anthony to move again, Hunter said, Anthony pulled out a weapon and stabbed him.
Metcalf, who played on his high school football team and was hoping to play college ball, leaves behind a grieving family and a stunned school community.
The story was largely ignored by the mainstream networks, though it was mentioned on the news site for both CNN and CBS. Neither outlet featured the story on their homepages - however, CBS did headline a story about how Trump's tariffs might affect a small Australian island inhabited by penguins.