Austin Metcalf's father attacks agitators claiming son's killing was about race as he shows SORROW for Karmelo Anthony 58%
By JOE HUTCHISON62% US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER23%
6/11/2026, 5:47:57 AM
Keywords: Dailymail, Karmelo Anthony
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The father of murdered teen Austin Metcalf has hit out at agitators who claimed his son's killing was over race - while expressing sorrow for his son's killer.
Jeff Metcalf sat down with CBS News after his son's killer Karmelo Anthony, 19, was sentenced to 35 years behind bars for the April 2025 killing of Metcalf, 17.
The grieving dad, who was speaking out for the first time since the trial ended this week, expressed sorrow for Anthony while saying that his son's death was never about race.
He told the outlet: 'Look at the effect, not just the effect here between the Metcalf family and the Anthony family.
Look what it did.
'One, to those kids they have to live with.
Two, it took on this huge wider 'Let's have a race war throughout the nation.'
'This case was never about race.
There's going to be those people now, just, you know, try to throw shade on the whole trial with the jury makeup and the speed of it and that sort of thing.
'I mean, those are the same people that said he was jumped by four people.
He had, his phone was broken.
You're going to spin whatever story to try to keep yourself afloat.'
He added: 'I'll even say this: I had a little bit of sorrow because I'm human.
And that poor boy is fixing to experience a life that I would not wish upon anyone.'
Metcalf added that he believes Anthony should have been handed a life sentence, and said that when he is up for parole in 17 years he will attend the hearing to argue against it.
'When I woke up, I felt like one million pounds had been lifted off my shoulders and this morning was the first day I woke up with a feeling of peace, comfort.
Tranquility that I haven't experienced in 14 months.
And I felt.
Awesome.'
He spoke with the outlet after a gag order imposed on him by a judge was formally lifted following the sentencing.
Anthony sobbed in court on Tuesday and his family burst into tears as the judge handed down the verdict, his mother begged the jury to show him mercy.
There was an audible gasp in the Texas courtroom when his 35-year sentence was handed down shortly after.
Following Anthony's sentencing, victim impact statements were read aloud by members of Metcalf's devastated family including his mother and father.
Metcalf's mom, Meghan Metcalf said: 'Seeing my loving son, his identical twin, lose the most important person in his life, it crushes you as a mother.
'Austin was a hugger, and a good one at that.
Austin always had a way of bringing people together.
He was the peacemaker, the protector,' she recalled.
'He was taken from us just as he was starting to really live,' the slain teen's mom said as she addressed Anthony directly.
'You may have just been given a sentence of 35 years behind bars but you can consider yourself lucky because I've been sentenced to a lifetime without my son,' she added.
Jeff, also delivered an impact statement on Tuesday evening.
He told the court how his family was 'robbed' of seeing Austin grow up, and expressed his grief that he couldn't defend his son.
He went on to express the 'unfiltered rage' he has experienced since his son was murdered, saying Austin's death 'didn't just break my heart' but also destroyed his 'sense of safety' and 'faith in people.'
The murder case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding the killing of a white teenager by a black peer quickly became racially fraught.
Metcalf was stabbed once in the chest.
The knife pierced through his bone in the center of his chest and punctured the right side of his heart, a medical examiner testified.
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