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Texas high school football star Austin Metcalf stabbed in the heart, left to die in twin brother’s arms at track meet: dad

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A Texas high school football star was stabbed in the heart and died in the arms of his twin brother after a fight over a seat at a track meet, his heartbroken family says.

Austin Metcalf was attending a track and field championship between other area schools at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, when the fatal attack happened on April 2.

Metcalf, a junior at Memorial High School outside Dallas, was in his team’s tent when a fight broke out between the teen and 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, cops say. 

Anthony, a 17-year-old senior at Centennial High School just five miles away, was allegedly told he was sitting in the wrong seat. He then allegedly drew a knife and pierced Metcalf through the heart, the dead teen’s father Jeff Metcalf told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth...

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