Karmelo Anthony, the convict in the stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas track meet in April 2025, is serving 35 years in a Texas prison. His lawyers have filed an appeal with the Dallas Court of Appeals for a new trial, arguing that it was not fair.
They say that they are “protected by the Black Panthers right now. In the 1.5-minute-long video, a black individual can be seen crying inside a car and talking about an incident with three witnesses.
There is no mention of the Karmelo Anthony incident in what the individual in the video says.
This story is being updated. The appeal will be registered in October this year, with arguments in the appeal starting later in 2027. But with the developments around the case now almost coming to a standstill after August 2024, hoaxes about the case are taking over the internet. The most recent of them concerns a viral video which in which Karmelo Anthony’s mother allegedly says that her son was Anthony is serving a 35-year sentence for the murder of Austin Metcalf at the Wallace Pack Unit (P1) prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. No report confirms that the 19-year-old was stabbed in prison. As of this writing, it has been viewed nearly 2 million times. But the video has been shared by the X account Observate with the caption: “The mother of Karmelo Anthony broke down in TEARS revealing that he was ST*BBED over 10 times while he was on a phone call with her and is currently fighting for his life in the hospital.
HT.com can confirm that the video that claims to show Karmelo Anthony’s mother talking about his stabbing is false. The video seems to have surfaced from the X account Observate. But it has no relation to the Karmelo Anthony case and the post is misleading.
