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Jury to Deliberate in Track Meet Stabbing Trial | Crime Alert 06.09.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: Harrowing witness testimony is shedding light on the desperate final
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  Speaker 1: moments of seventeen year old Texas high school athlete Austin Metcalf.
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  Speaker 1: The standout Memorial High School student athlete was killed during
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  Speaker 1: a fatal April twenty twenty five stabbing at a crowded
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  Speaker 1: track meet. In the details emerging from the courtroom reveal
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  Speaker 1: a scene of sheer terror. On Saturday, day three of
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  Speaker 1: the trial, a fellow Memorial High School student athlete took
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  Speaker 1: the stand for counting how students repeatedly asked nineteen year
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  Speaker 1: old Carmelo Anthony to leave their team tent. According to
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  Speaker 1: the witness, Anthony refused to leave and instead aggressively challenged
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  Speaker 1: the students to a physical fight. The witness noted that
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  Speaker 1: Austin Metcalf commendably declined the provocation, directly telling Anthony that
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  Speaker 1: he was not going to engage in a fight at
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  Speaker 1: a track meet, but the peace did not last. Moments later,
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  Speaker 1: the same student testified that he heard Austin repeatedly screaming
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  Speaker 1: out that he he had been stabbed, sending the surrounding
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  Speaker 1: students fleeing from the immediate area in panic. A second witness,
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen year old Memorial High School student, provided devastating
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  Speaker 1: confirmation of the attacks immediacy, telling the court that some
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  Speaker 1: of Metcalf's final words were he effing stabbed me. The
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  Speaker 1: emotional weight of the proceedings reached a peak when a
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  Speaker 1: recently graduated eighteen year old from Memorial High School recounted
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  Speaker 1: that he distinctly heard Metcalf screaming out for help. He
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  Speaker 1: described a frantic scene where coaches, athletic trainers, and fellow
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  Speaker 1: students rushed to administer CPR to Austin as he lost consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: while others were forced to physically hold back Austin's devastated
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  Speaker 1: twin brother Hunter. These new raw accounts built upon earlier
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  Speaker 1: testimony from another student who remembered hearing Metcalf cry out,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God as the grim reality of the stabbing
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  Speaker 1: set in. Carmelo Anthony, who was seventeen at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the incident, now faces a first degree murder charge
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  Speaker 1: for the death of Metcalf, who later died at a
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  Speaker 1: local hospital. Anthony is pleaded not guilty with his defense
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  Speaker 1: team maintaining that he acted out of a split second
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  Speaker 1: of fear and chaos and stabbed metcalf strictly in self defense. However,
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  Speaker 1: the prosecution rested its case on Saturday after calling twenty
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  Speaker 1: one witnesses, the vast majority of whom firmly labeled Carmelo
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  Speaker 1: Anthony as the aggressor. The defense is now struggling to
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  Speaker 1: maintain its self defense claim, especially after their own witnesses
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  Speaker 1: began siding with the victim on cross examination. The defense's
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  Speaker 1: third witness, a seventeen year old Memorial High School student,
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  Speaker 1: was asked directly who was in the wrong. He replied
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  Speaker 1: that he believed Anthony was entirely in the wrong and
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  Speaker 1: agreed that Anthony provoked the fatal conflict. Because Anthony was
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  Speaker 1: a minor at the time of the crime, he is
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  Speaker 1: not eligible for the death penalty, but he faces life
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  Speaker 1: in prison if convicted. The defense's case was extremely brief,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony's attorneys resting after just a day and a half
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  Speaker 1: of testimony. Today, both sides will present closing arguments before
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  Speaker 1: the case is turned over to the jury. The jurors
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  Speaker 1: will be sequestered if they are undecided by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Due to the large amounts of attention,
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  Speaker 1: the case is receiving protesters from all over the country
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  Speaker 1: loudly expressing their concerns outside the Frisco Courthouse every day
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  Speaker 1: of trial. We will be watching for their verdict. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. A community is in
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  Speaker 1: mourning after a twenty two year old Penn State senior
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  Speaker 1: was shot and killed just steps away from his home
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  Speaker 1: in South Philadelphia on Saturday, June sixth. William Billy Schmidt
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  Speaker 1: was returning home at around one thirty am after watching
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals with his friends at a local bar.
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  Speaker 1: As he walked along the nineteen hundred block of derfour Street,
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  Speaker 1: he was targeted by thieves. Surveillance footage obtained from a
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  Speaker 1: neighbor shows Billy walking toward a man and demanding give
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  Speaker 1: me back my phone. Moments later, another individual walking just
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Billy turns around, draws a weapon, and fires
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  Speaker 1: a single fatal shot into his chest. Bill Schmidt spoke
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  Speaker 1: out to Fox fifty nine about the devastating sequence of events.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still just shocked that this happened. He was chasing
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  Speaker 1: a kid who took the phone, and another kid came
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  Speaker 1: around and shot him. Billy was a dedicated student studying
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  Speaker 1: digital journalism in Media Communications at Penn State University, and
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  Speaker 1: he was on track to graduate this coming December. In
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  Speaker 1: a statement, Penn State expressed their deep sorrow, writing, we
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  Speaker 1: are heartbroken this morning to learn the tragic death of
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  Speaker 1: William Schmidt, and we share our deepest condolences with his
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  Speaker 1: family and friends. The Philadelphia Police Department is actively searching
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  Speaker 1: for the suspects involved in the theft and shooting, but
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  Speaker 1: no arrests have been made. Billy's father expressed shock that
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  Speaker 1: his son attempted to pursue the thieves, noting that Billy
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  Speaker 1: was typically an easy going young man. Billy's sister, Anna Schmidt,
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  Speaker 1: broke down in tears while speaking to Fox fifty nine
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  Speaker 1: pleading for answers. He's miss him so much. I'll understand
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  Speaker 1: how someone could do this to me, only family, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he's just gonna walk in the door. I
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  Speaker 1: went justice for him, for my family. The authorities are
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  Speaker 1: urging anyone with information regarding this senseless act of violence
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  Speaker 1: or the identities of the suspects to contact the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Police Department immediately at two one, five six eight six
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  Speaker 1: Tips for the latest crime and justice breaking news. Be
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  Speaker 1: sure to tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast app
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  Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Sydney Sulvani.