New 911 audio released from Austin Metcalf’s friend captures the moments after the April 2025 stabbing, including a description of Karmelo Anthony’s clothing and a belief that coaches had stopped the attacker—before Anthony was arrested, convicted of murder, a
The 911 call came in right after Austin Metcalf was stabbed in the chest, and the voice on the line sounded strangely sure that the danger had ended.
Newly released 911 audio plays out what Austin Metcalf’s friend told the dispatcher last year—saying Metcalf had been stabbed and that Karmelo Anthony was no longer a threat because some coaches had grabbed him. In the call. the friend tells the dispatcher that Austin Metcalf was injured in his chest. and he believes the situation is over.
The dispatcher presses for immediate details. She asks whether Austin’s friend can see the assailant, and he says he can. He describes the person who stabbed Metcalf as Black, wearing an Essentials sweatshirt and a pair of blue sweatpants.
Those details match what investigators later showed in body camera footage from the incident, where Karmelo Anthony is seen wearing the same outfit as officers took him away. During that footage, Anthony cried and claimed self-defense.
As the call continues. the friend says he isn’t sure whether Anthony still has the weapon. but he insists Anthony is no longer a threat. When the dispatcher asks why he believes that. the friend points to the same moment he mentioned at the start—coaches stopping Anthony and seeming to handle the situation.
The new recording is starkly different from another 911 call that had already been published from near the same incident. In that earlier audio, a person right next to Metcalf spoke to a dispatcher while others performed CPR. In the background, Good Samaritans pleaded with Metcalf to live as they tried to help.
After the April 2025 stabbing, police arrested Karmelo Anthony. He was later convicted of murder and sentenced to more than three decades in prison.
The timeline the audio offers—sharp certainty that the attacker had been stopped, mixed with uncertainty about whether the weapon was still present—sits in painful contrast to the emergency calls that followed, including the desperate appeals captured during CPR.
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So they’re saying the coaches stopped him?? That’s wild. Like how do you just know it’s over on a 911 call.
Essentials sweatshirt and blue sweatpants… ok so basically they describe the outfit and then everybody moves on? I don’t get why the call sounded so calm if someone got stabbed.
Wait, I thought “Karmelo Anthony” was just a regular dude name? Like not the basketball guy. People always pick the wrong person in these stories, so idk.
The part about being sure the danger ended makes it feel like everyone was messing around like it wasn’t serious yet. Then later it’s CPR and he didn’t make it, right? These recordings are always inconsistent, so I’m confused how they decided guilt off of that.