Family of teen stabbed to death at Texas track meet speaks out: 'He didn't deserve it'
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The family of a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at a Texas track meet said they are heartbroken over what they called the "senseless" act of violence.
Austin Metcalf, an 11th grader at Frisco Memorial High School, died Wednesday after police said another student stabbed him during an altercation at a track meet in Frisco.
The victim's twin brother, Hunter Metcalf, was also at the meet and tried to save him, their mother told Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA.
"I got a phone call from Hunter, he was screaming that Austin had been stabbed," their mother, Meghan Metcalf, told the station.
"He was holding the wound. He was trying to save his brother," she said...
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