Karmelo Anthony taunted Austin Metcalf before stabbing: Prosecutor Wirskye:
“We are all here because Karmelo Anthony decided to take a knife to a high school track meet and provoke another young man who he didn’t know into touching him,” prosecutor Bill Wirskye said in his opening statement to the jury. “This man decided to commit an unjustified, provoked murder. This case has nothing to do with race; this is not self-defense.”
Anthony had been at the tent belonging to Metcalf’s school when the attack occurred. Wirskye said that multiple people in the tent told Anthony he wasn’t allowed to be there and asked him to leave, to which the defendant allegedly responded, “Move me. Make me.” Metcalf, trying to be a leader, stepped up again to ask Anthony to leave, the prosecutor said.
“Karmelo taunted him until Metcalf took the bait as a young man, and went to push him,” Wirskye said. “As soon as the stabbing happens, Karmelo takes off running fast at first and then slows down and tries to blend in and slip out the front gate.” Wirskye said that the victim didn’t realize he had been stabbed immediately, and lifted his shirt to reveal a “gaping wound to the heart.”
When other students followed Anthony and pointed him out to officers, he allegedly began pleading, “He touched me first.” When officers took Anthony into custody, Wirskye said, Anthony told them, “I’m not alleged. I did it. He touched me first,” without even being questioned.
It’s not. Karmelo Anthony taunted Austin Metcalf before stabbing: Prosecutor Wirskye:
“We are all here because Karmelo Anthony decided to take a knife to a high school track meet and provoke another young man who he didn’t know into touching him,” prosecutor Bill Wirskye said in his opening statement to the jury. “This man decided to commit an unjustified, provoked murder. This case has nothing to do with race; this is not self-defense.”
Anthony had been at the tent belonging to Metcalf’s school when the attack occurred. Wirskye said that multiple people in the tent told Anthony he wasn’t allowed to be there and asked him to leave, to which the defendant allegedly responded, “Move me. Make me.” Metcalf, trying to be a leader, stepped up again to ask Anthony to leave, the prosecutor said.
“Karmelo taunted him until Metcalf took the bait as a young man, and went to push him,” Wirskye said. “As soon as the stabbing happens, Karmelo takes off running fast at first and then slows down and tries to blend in and slip out the front gate.” Wirskye said that the victim didn’t realize he had been stabbed immediately, and lifted his shirt to reveal a “gaping wound to the heart.”
When other students followed Anthony and pointed him out to officers, he allegedly began pleading, “He touched me first.” When officers took Anthony into custody, Wirskye said, Anthony told them, “I’m not alleged. I did it. He touched me first,” without even being questioned.