Prosecutor tells jury that teen’s killing at a Texas track meet was murder and not self-defense | CNN

Prosecutors on Thursday told jurors that a Texas teenager competing at a high school track meet provoked a 17-year-old boy from a rival team before fatally stabbing him in the chest and fleeing as people rushed to help. A defense attorney told jurors that Karmelo Anthony was acting in self-defense when he pulled out a knife and stabbed Austin Metcalf after Metcalf made physical contact with Anthony. The accounts of the stabbing emerged as a trial opened in a case that stunned an affluent Dallas suburb where the pair attended school. The death last year quickly drew wide attention, in part because of social media posts that amplified the case in racial terms. Anthony, now 19, is Black, while the Metcalf was white. Anthony told police he was protecting himself when the two got into a confrontation during a track meet in Frisco, a booming city in Dallas’ sprawling north suburbs, according to an arrest report. But prosecutor Bill Wirskye told jurors it was a “senseless murder” and not a case of self-defense. He called it a “sneak, surprise attack” and said Anthony “knows he goaded the murder.” “He didn’t want a fight,” Wirskye said of Metcalf. The jury was seated th