Anguished screams of Austin Metcalf’s twin brother, 17, are played to court from day of

Police body camera footage showed Austin Metcalf’s twin brother Hunter pleading for help after the stabbing.

Hunter shouted, ‘Oh my God. He’s my best friend. He’s my brother.’

He became hysterical as he begged for help and cried out, ‘I can’t do this.’

At one point, Hunter grew incoherent and seemed to be praying out loud.

As the footage was played in court on Friday, Metcalf’s killer, Karmelo Anthony, sat motionless.

Hunter was not in the courtroom at the time.

Frisco police officer Jacob Shalz was among the officers who responded to Kuykendall Stadium on the afternoon Austin Metcalf was fatally stabbed.

He testified that he was involved in locating Anthony’s folding knife, which was found six rows north of the Memorial High School tent. Anthony’s blue Centennial High School backpack was also recovered at the scene.

Photographs shown to jurors depicted a knife with a black blade and silver handle. Blood could be seen running down the weapon, which investigators suggested may have been affected by the rain falling that afternoon.

Prosecutors later displayed the knife itself in court. Anthony remained motionless, staring straight ahead as the evidence was presented to the jury.

Defense attorney Mike Howard reiterated that Karmelo Anthony did not resist arrest following the stabbing, despite initially fleeing from the tent where the confrontation occurred.

‘He made that statement on this own. Not because you asked him,’ Howard said, referring to Anthony’s admission on officer Cortez’s body camera.

Cortex drove ‘Melo’, as the defense refers to him as, to jail shortly after he was arrested.

Officer Eduardo Cortez told jurors that weapons of any kind are banned from school grounds.

He called it ‘unprecedented’ that Karmelo Anthony was carrying a folding knife with him at the track meet.

Cortez said he did not expect students to be armed in Frisco, which is an affluent Dallas suburb.

Frisco ISD school resource officer Eduardo Cortez responded to the stadium on the day of the stabbing.

He testified on Friday that killer teen Karmelo Anthony cooperated when confronted by police.

Cortez said when he arrived at the scene, he encountered an adult who pointed to Anthony and said, ‘That’s our suspect.’

He told Anthony to put his hands up and said Anthony was cooperating with police commands.

Cortez explained that Anthony was not being questioned by police when he confessed to killing Austin Metcalf.

Anthony heard Cortez’s radio that he had the alleged suspect, and Anthony offered the statement, ‘I’m not alleged, I did it.’

Anthony told Cortez, ‘He put his hands on me. I told him not to.’

The officer noted that Anthony had blood in his left middle finger.

Frisco firefighter Neil Adams was the first witness to take the stand on Friday.

He responded to Austin Metcalf’s stabbing on April 2, 2025.

‘He was gray, there was no respiration. He did not have a pulse,’ Adams said.

The firefighter described administering life-saving efforts, including giving Metcalf blood.

‘We continued monitoring and doing everything we could,’ he said.

Adams then became emotional, tears welling up, when asked whether the case affected him.

With all the public scrutiny, the judge presiding over the Karmelo Anthony murder trial has issued an order tightly regulating public conduct during the criminal proceedings.

‘This Court finds that this case has generated substantial public and media attention and that unrestricted access or activity may compromise courtroom security, juror privacy, and the Defendant’s right to a fair trial,’ the court order obtained by the Daily Mail states.

Judge John Roach Jr. ordered that no recording, broadcasting or photography be allowed in the courtroom during the trial.

Additionally, only nine members of credentialed media will be allowed in the court room per day, and the court will decide who is credentialed.

There will also be strict rules about decorum.

‘All persons present in the courtroom shall remain silent and respectful at all times. No talking, gestures, facial expressions, or other reactions to testimony, rulings or proceedings shall be permitted.’

In opening arguments on Thursday in Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial, prosecutors said the baby-faced teen used a folding knife to stab Austin Metcalf at the time of their dispute.

Metcalf lifted up his shirt once he realized he had been knifed and exclaimed, ‘I’ve been stabbed,’ before tumbling down several rows of bleachers.

Prosecutors said his brother Hunter rushed to his aid as Anthony ran from the scene and later tried to blend into groups of kids who were fleeing the stadium.

‘If you’re scared and running away in self-defense, why toss the knife,’ the prosecutor said.

‘That knife wasn’t used to protect him from harm. That knife was used to harm another. Find this man guilty of first-degree murder,’ he continued, pointing at Anthony.

In opening arguments on Thursday, prosecutors said that Karmelo Anthony used a folding knife to stab Austin Metcalf and then tossed it before fleeing the scene.

As Metcalf’s brother rushed to his aid, Anthony ran from the scene and later tried to blend into groups of kids who were fleeing the stadium, according to Collin County First Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye.

‘If you’re scared and running away in self-defense, why toss the knife,’ the prosecutor said.

Rob Starr, 41, the head track coach and football coach at Frisco Memorial High School, where Austin Metcalf attended, gave emotional testimony on Thursday.

He cried on the stand as he recounted seeing the star athlete after he had been stabbed by Karmelo Anthony.

‘What I do see is Austin on the ground and his face is purple, and he has a big hole in his chest,’ Starr said, adding that he ran back to the tent.

He said Metcalf’s twin brother, Hunter, pointed at Anthony, and Starr went over to where he was.

‘I asked [Anthony]. He said [Metcalf] put his hands on me. [Anthony] was hysterical,’ Starr said.

‘I jumped the gate, and I went to Hunter, and he was hysterical. I just knelt down, and I just prayed with him.’

Starr sobbed, ‘I just knew Austin was gone.’

Several members of the public in the courtroom cried as the court saw a text message that Starr sent Austin one day after he died.

‘Love you, man. Sorry I didn’t say that enough,’ the text read.

Metcalf’s father, Jeff, was seen wiping away tears as the court saw the exhibit.

The murder trial of Karmelo Anthony will resume at the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, a Dallas suburb, today at 9am CT/10am ET.

He is accused of murdering Austin Metcalf, 17, in April 2025 after stabbing the athlete at a high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium. Metcalf bled out in his brother’s arms.

Prosecutors claim the attack was a ‘senseless murder,’ but Anthony has pleaded not guilty and insisted he was acting in self-defense.

The case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding it quickly became racially fraught.

Notably, no black jury members were selected in the high-profile trial.

The Daily Mail was one of only two news organizations granted access to surveillance footage of the deadly incident.

The 40-minute surveillance video, recorded from a stationary camera on the opposite side of the football field, captures the ten minutes leading up to the attack and the desperate efforts by Austin Metcalf’s twin brother and others to save his life before paramedics arrived.

Jurors will see footage of the horrific incident as evidence in the murder trial of Metcalf’s killer, Karmelo Anthony.

Anthony has admitted to stabbing Metcalf, but insists it was in self-defense.