The father of slain teen Austin Metcalf has some choice words for the former superintendent of Frisco Independent School District in Texas.
Jeff Metcalf’s son, Austin, was killed by Karmelo Anthony in April 2025. Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years behind bars for fatally stabbing the 17-year-old at a track meet.
Days after the viral verdict, Metcalf has been voicing his grief and frustrations publicly.
Metcalf told Fox News Digital he believes the school system and its leader mishandled his son’s case, the aftermath of his murder, and how Frisco went about dealing with Anthony’s ability to graduate.
GRIEVING TEXAS FATHER SPEAKS OUT AFTER SON WAS STABBED TO DEATH AT HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET
Addressing former superintendent Mike Waldrip, he said he “folded like a cheap tent under pressure,” from Anthony supporters pushing Frisco ISD to allow him to still graduate despite the allegations against him at the time of his graduation last year.
In a recent interview with Rumble podcast “JinxedSip,” the grieving father again went after Waldrip and said he was “the most spineless, coward piece of —- I’ve ever met in my entire life,” TMZ reported.
Metcalf also expressed his anger at the fact that Waldrip allowed Anthony to graduate high school after the stabbing.
“He didn’t go back to school after April 2. He might have had the credit, he might have had the grades, but you still have the ability to deny the diploma,” he said to Fox News Digital.
He told Fox News Digital that Anthony should not have been allowed to graduate based on attendance as he says the killer never returned to school following the stabbing.
TMZ reported, “Jeff argued that Karmelo shouldn’t have been able to graduate because he says the school handbook allegedly declares murder to be grounds for ‘mandatory expulsion.'”
Anthony was convicted of murder more than a year after he fatally stabbed Metcalf.
Jeff Metcalf also told Fox News Digital the school system didn’t have strong enough security at the fateful track meet.
He said, “They didn’t have metal detectors that the athletes went through, they didn’t have proper security. I mean, I can go on and on. They were negligent in this.”
Waldrip was the school system’s superintendent during the time that Metcalf was killed. Frisco ISD announced his retirement in November 2025, more than six months after the murder.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Waldrip and Frisco ISD for comment on Metcalf’s claims.
