Harrowing final social media post of Austin Metcalf who died in brother's arms after being stabbed at track meet

Austin Metcalf posted a heartbreaking last connection connected societal media, insisting helium had 'faith that God got me', conscionable 2 days earlier the 17-year-old was tragically killed.

Metcalf, a prima precocious schoolhouse shot player, died successful his duplicate brother's arms aft helium was stabbed successful the bosom astatine a way and tract conscionable successful Texas for asking idiosyncratic to get retired of his seat.

According to the precocious teen's family, Metcalf was attacked connected Wednesday astatine the Kuykendall Stadium successful Frisco aft helium told 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony that helium was sitting successful the incorrect chair.

Anthony has been charged with execution aft helium allegedly killed Metcalf arsenic his duplicate member Hunter watched successful fearfulness and past tried to prevention his life.

Only a mates of days earlier, however, Metcalf has written connected X: 'Faith that God got me... and my enactment volition wage off.' By Friday morning, the station had been viewed astir 3million times.

Speaking to WFAA aft the tragedy, his duplicate member Hunter said: 'I tried to whip astir arsenic accelerated arsenic I could. I looked astatine my member and I’m not going to speech astir the rest. I tried to assistance him.'

Hunter past called his parents, who rushed to Austin's broadside but recovered him not breathing. 

'I could spot each the blood, and I saw wherever the coiled was, and I was precise concerned, truthful I had to find his brother, and we rushed to the hospital. And we prayed, and it’s God’s plan, I don’t recognize it, but they weren’t capable to prevention him. This is murder,' his begetter Jeff Metcalf said.

Austin, a junior, was a prima subordinate astatine Memorial High School successful Frisco and harbored ambitions of becoming a assemblage athlete.

On Thursday night, however, the begetter of the alleged killer issued a staunch defence of his lad and insists helium is simply a 'good kid'.

'Everyone has already made their assumptions astir my son, but he's not what they're making him retired to be,' helium told the New York Post.

'He's a bully kid. He works 2 jobs. He's an A student, has a 3.7 GPA.'

He besides went connected to importune that his lad did not instigate the brawl which led to the murder, claiming: 'He was not the aggressor. He was not the 1 who started it.' 

Anthony, 17, has been charged with first-degree execution and remains successful constabulary custody, but his begetter insists the heat-of-the-moment incidental is simply a 'tragedy' for some families.

'I consciousness atrocious for the different parents and family, and words can’t explicate however some [families] person been affected by this tragedy.'

Metcalf's begetter had antecedently questioned Anthony's upbringing, asking: 'What benignant of parents did this kid have? What was helium taught?'

He besides revealed that helium has already forgiven the alleged killer. 'He brought a weapon to a way conscionable and helium murdered my lad by stabbing him successful the heart. The feline was successful the incorrect spot and they asked him to determination and helium bowed up [became aggravated and aggressive]. This is murder,' helium added.

'You cognize what, I already forgive this person. Already. God takes attraction of things. God is going to instrumentality attraction of me. God is going to instrumentality attraction of my family.'

The grieving begetter said helium pities Anthony's loved ones, too. 'Now their lad volition extremity up successful situation and larn that helium killed someone, and helium devastated and killed my lad who I tin ne'er get back. It's unfortunate for everyone involved.'