A handcuffed 17-year-old corrects the officer reading him his situation: "I'm not alleged. I did it." Behind him, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf is dying under a track-meet tent.

In April 2025, Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf — two teenagers from rival Frisco, Texas high schools who'd never met — ended up under the same tent at a district track meet. Four minutes later, one of them was gone, and the case split the internet long before it reached a courtroom.

Tyrella and Nikita walk through the confrontation, the arrest, the closed trial, and the jury instruction that may have decided everything — reported out from the courtroom, because no recording exists.

This is Part 1. Part 2 — the sentence, and a second Texas case nobody's talking about — is on Patreon now and drops Thursday.

Content warning: fatal violence involving minors.

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