A 75-page court document obtained by Fox News Digital lays out dozens of alleged prior acts by Karmelo Anthony that prosecutors sought to introduce at his murder trial, including threats, assaults and weapons-related messages stretching back to his school years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Anthony was convicted of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet on April 2, 2025. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison and has appealed the conviction.
According to the notice, filed by prosecutors on May 8, 2026, to identify extraneous offenses they intended to use at trial, Anthony’s girlfriend, Valeria Torres Perez, told a Centennial High School staff member on the morning of the stabbing that Anthony had been driving by her home and refusing to let her end their relationship.
Text messages attributed to Anthony from that same morning show him writing, at 12:59 a.m., “im lowk on the verge.” The message does not specify what he meant, and he repeated and emphasized the statement roughly 35 minutes later.
The notice states plainly that it is not a judicial finding that the alleged acts occurred, and it does not tie any of the messages to Metcalf or establish that any weapon referenced in the exchanges was used in the stabbing. It also cautions that some of the screenshots capture only portions of longer conversations.
Alleged Pattern of Threats
The document reaches back to a Dec. 23, 2023, exchange with Perez in which Anthony allegedly described losing control when angry: “When I get mad i see red,” “When I get mad i blackout,” “When I get mad i cant control myself” and “When I get mad my eyes change color.”
In that same exchange, Anthony allegedly said he assaulted another person after that person posted about “smoking” Anthony’s cousin, writing, “He posted where he was at and we pulled up and got em.”
A May 5, 2024, Instagram photo allegedly showed Anthony holding a firearm while posing with a group. By May 17, 2024, he had allegedly told Perez, “im shooting her,” referring to another woman. On June 10, 2024, he allegedly threatened Perez by asking “how many bullets uu want coming out of ur chest,” and six days later allegedly wrote “imma beat ur a–.”
The notice describes continued threats into the fall of 2024, including messages in September referencing a “gun to the head” and cutting someone’s brakes, and messages in November referencing shooting something up, gloves, a rope and obtaining a switch. A Nov. 13, 2024, video allegedly showed Anthony holding what appears to be a firearm, and a Jan. 4, 2025, video allegedly showed him aiming what appears to be a firearm at a home before running away.
Separate exchanges with other contacts are also cited. On Feb. 19, 2025, Anthony allegedly discussed buying a firearm and an extended clip with a contact identified as Anthony Mendoza. A Feb. 26, 2025, exchange from a different phone number allegedly included a discussion about carrying a firearm. The notice also says Anthony discussed committing robberies in January 2025 and was suspended for fighting that February.
By March 2025, according to the filing, messages directed at Perez had escalated further. On March 8, 2025, Anthony allegedly texted her, “imma f—— murder u … yo friends go die … sho them ts.” The notice says he assaulted Perez on March 14, 2025, and that 13 days later he allegedly threatened her with a deadly weapon and referenced having a gun.
The document also cites alleged racist and anti-gay messages, discussions of narcotics, additional photographs and videos involving firearms, and statements about fighting and assaulting other people, tracing alleged misconduct back through Anthony’s school years in Baton Rouge.
The filing does not include a formal mental-health diagnosis or establish that Anthony was in psychiatric crisis before the stabbing. It presents prosecutors’ account of prior conduct they argued was relevant to the case. Fox News Digital reached out to Anthony’s attorney, Russell Wilson, for comment.
