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Mourning mother, twin brother of slain Texas teen speak out: 'Lost my best friend in the blink of an eye'
Choking back tears, the grieving Texas mother and twin brother of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf struggled to explain the devastation they feel after he was stabbed to death in a terrifying scene at a track meet in Frisco, Texas.
Austin Metcalf, a junior at Memorial High School in Frisco, was stabbed in the chest allegedly by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete from Frisco Centennial High School. The altercation reportedly began as a seating dispute as the teams waited for the delayed competition to begin.
The suspect has been arrested and charged with murder.
“My son is gone, and I don’t really have words,” Meghan Metcalf wept Thursday on “The Will Cain Show.” “He’s just going to be so missed by mostly our family, but this whole community has really wrapped their arms around us. If I could say anything to the nation, I would say to make sure that you just hug your babies tight, because you don’t know when [is] the last time you get to do it.”
GRIEVING TEXAS FATHER SPEAKS OUT AFTER SON WAS STABBED TO DEATH AT HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET
Austin was “extremely smart” and a “highly recruited” football player, and his twin brother Hunter remembered him as “just a great person overall” who was “always there to check on me and keep me straight, so I wouldn’t get in trouble.”
Hunter Metcalf recounted the tragedy Thursday on “The Will Cain Show.” He explained that the brothers noticed the suspect near their team tent. When the brother tried to question the suspect, the situation escalated, he said.
“My brother stepped in. He started being how he always is. We’re just brothers, just having my back. Things started getting more, like, higher intensity, and the kid said some, like, aggressive stuff — like, reckless stuff — and Austin tried to handle the problem,” Hunter said, recounting Austin’s final moments.
“I whipped my head around, and then all of a sudden I see him running down the bleachers just grabbing his chest… I put my hand on there, tried to make it [the bleeding] stop, and I grabbed his head and I looked in his eyes. I just saw his soul leave, and it took my soul, too.”
17-year-old Austin Metcalf was killed during a fatal altercation at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. (Jeff Metcalf)
The incident occurred at about 10 a.m. at Kuykendall Stadium at the University Interscholasic League’s District 11-5A championship meet. Anthony attends Frisco Centennial, roughly 7 miles away from Frisco Memorial.
According to the Frisco Independent School District, the meet was suspended shortly after the incident. The ISD added that the stadium “was immediately secured, and students were released and sent back to their home campus on FISD buses with expediency.”
Meanwhile, the Metcalf family is grappling with rage and grief over the sudden loss of Austin.
“I am so angry at that boy. It’s just not fair,” Meghan cried out.
The Metcalf family’s church held a vigil in Austin’s honor on Wednesday night, drawing hundreds of people.
“Seventeen years, my best friend, just there in the blink of an eye, I lost him. So I’m not at that point to forgive and forget, but eventually I will,” Hunter said.
“I just pray for [the suspect’s] family,” he added. “I pray that they understand what we’re going through as well.”
A GoFundMe page was started by Austin’s father, Jeff Metcalf, to help the family heal.
Fox News Digital’s Madison Colombo and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
If you live or want to live in Los Angeles, the city controller has released a new dashboard highlighting some of the city’s most notorious problem rental properties, a tool designed to help renters avoid future headaches.
“This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very few of the complaints end up leading to strong enforcement or real accountability,” L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said in a media release Thursday.
The new Top 100 Problem Rental Properties dashboard includes a searchable database of all residential addresses with reported housing violation cases within the city of Los Angeles, a ranked list of the 100 addresses with the most violations and an interactive map.
“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address,” Mejia said in the release.
Data for the dashboard was compiled from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles City Planning and the L.A. County Assessor’s Office, according to the controller’s office.
The release also identified the top three addresses with the highest number of reported housing violations:
1. 636 1/2 North Hill Place, Chinatown
192 housing violation cases
2. 11700 West Wilshire Boulevard, Sawtelle
166 housing violation cases
3. 6650 West Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills
113 housing violation cases
“Our new dashboard is an easy‑to‑understand public tool that we hope will help renters and organizers document patterns of harm, as well as put pressure on both landlords and the City to act,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”
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