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Court documents detail alleged history of violence by Texas track meet killer
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Newly obtained court documents reveal alleged threats, assaults, and weapons-related messages by Karmelo Anthony in the years before he fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet.
Hours before Karmelo Anthony fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet, his girlfriend reported him to school staff for allegedly stalking her, according to a 75-page court document. The document, filed by prosecutors, outlines dozens of alleged prior acts including threats, assaults, and weapons-related messages that they sought to introduce at trial.
The morning of the April 2, 2025 attack, Anthony's girlfriend, Valeria Torres Perez, told a Centennial High School staff member that Anthony had been driving by her home and refusing to let her end their relationship. Text messages attributed to Anthony from that morning show him writing at 12:59 a.m., "im lowk on the verge," and repeating the sentiment about 35 minutes later. The message does not specify what he meant.
The court document reaches back to a December 2023 exchange with Perez in which Anthony described losing control when angry. "When I get mad i see red," he wrote. "When I get mad i blackout," "When I get mad i cant control myself" and "When I get mad my eyes change color." In that same exchange, Anthony allegedly said he assaulted another person after the individual posted about "smoking" Anthony's cousin, writing, "He posted where he was at and we pulled up and got em."
A May 2024 Instagram photo allegedly showed Anthony holding a firearm while posing with a group. By May 17, 2024, Anthony had told Perez he was going to shoot a woman, writing, "im shooting her," the notice says. On June 10, 2024, he allegedly threatened to shoot Perez by asking, "how many bullets uu want coming out of ur chest." Six days later, he allegedly threatened to assault Perez again, writing, "imma beat ur a--."
The threats continued into the fall of 2024. During September, Anthony allegedly made threats involving a gun, writing "gun to the head" and saying he would cut another person's brakes. By November, he had allegedly written about shooting something up and referred to gloves, a rope and getting his hands on a switch. A Nov. 13, 2024 video showed Anthony holding what appears to be a firearm, and a Jan. 4, 2025 video allegedly showed him aiming what appears to be a firearm at a home before running away.
Separate exchanges with other contacts followed. On Feb. 19, 2025, Anthony discussed buying a firearm and an extended clip in a text conversation with Anthony Mendoza. A Feb. 26, 2025 exchange involving a different phone number included a discussion about carrying a firearm. The notice also says Anthony discussed committing robberies in January 2025 and was suspended for fighting in February 2025.
By March 2025, the messages directed at Perez had grown more threatening. Anthony allegedly texted her on March 8, 2025, "imma f------ murder u … yo friends go die … sho them ts." The notice says Anthony assaulted Perez on March 14, 2025. Thirteen days later, he allegedly threatened her with a deadly weapon and referenced having a gun.
The document also cites alleged racist and anti-gay messages, discussions about narcotics, photographs and videos involving firearms, and statements about fighting and assaulting other people. It traces alleged misconduct back to Anthony's school years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, including "numerous acts of assaultive conduct."
Prosecutors filed the notice on May 8, 2026, to identify extraneous offenses they intended to use at trial. It is not a judicial finding that the alleged acts occurred, and the notice warns that some screenshots capture only portions of the full exchanges. The document does not provide a formal mental-health diagnosis or establish that Anthony was experiencing a psychiatric crisis before the stabbing. It does not say the messages were about Metcalf or establish that any weapon mentioned in the exchanges was used in the track-meet stabbing.
Anthony was convicted of killing Metcalf and sentenced to 35 years in prison. He has appealed the conviction. Fox News Digital reached out to Anthony's attorney, Russell Wilson, for comment.
