Disturbing 911 audio captured in the moments after Texas teenager Austin Metcalf was fatally stabbed by Karmelo Anthony has been released, revealing the panic and desperation of those at the scene as the 17-year-old’s coach performed CPR while bystanders pleaded for help.
The calls, released on Friday more than a week after Anthony’s murder conviction, capture the chaos that unfolded at a Frisco track field in real time. One caller, named Mason, told the operator that Metcalf, a Memorial High School track and football star, had “just got stabbed,” urging: “You need to send an ambulance right now.” Mason described Anthony, a rival athlete from Centennial High School, as black and wearing a grey Essentials hoodie with blue sweatpants, telling the operator a coach was holding him in place. When asked what Metcalf had been stabbed with, Mason said simply: “My friend’s bleeding everywhere.” In the background, the caller could be heard telling someone nearby, “It was Austin, Austin got stabbed in the chest.”
A separate call captured the moment Metcalf’s football coach, Joshua Rebmann, performed CPR on the dying teenager while pleading with him to hold on. “C’mon! C’mon!” he was heard saying, followed by, “Fight through, fight through! You’re doing good.” That caller told the 911 operator that Metcalf was unconscious but still breathing at the time. Another caller simply reported “an athlete that was stabbed” amid what was described as sheer chaos erupting around the scene.
The audio’s release reignited public attention on a case that had already fanned racial tensions in McKinney, where the jury trial took place. Anthony was found lurking inside the rival school’s tent in April 2025 when an argument broke out with Metcalf. Witnesses said Anthony was told repeatedly to leave the area before he produced a $13, 3.5-inch serrated knife, stabbing Metcalf once in the chest. Anthony, who was 17 at the time of the killing but tried as an adult, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison earlier this month.
