The president of the Next Generation Action Network — a group advocating for 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who’s charged with murdering high school star athlete Austin Metcalf — called Metcalf’s father “disrespectful” for showing up at a Thursday news conference for the Anthony family.
NGAN’s Dominique Alexander added that Jeff Metcalf’s presence at the event was “a disrespect to the dignity of his son,” according to a WFAA-TV live video feed of the news conference.
Alexander told those gathered that Metcalf ‘was not invited,’ that ‘he knows that it’s inappropriate to be near [the Anthony] family,’ and that his presence at the news conference ‘shows you all’ his ‘character.’
Metcalf’s 17-year-old son Austin was fatally stabbed at an April 2 track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas. Police arrested Anthony and charged him with first-degree murder.
Jeff Metcalf said the suspect got angry after being told he was in the wrong place and being asked to move: “I’m not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have? What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet, and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in the wrong place, and they…
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