A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas has indicted a Kansas City, Missouri woman on three counts of interstate threatening communications after she allegedly sent a series of death threats to the family of Austin Metcalf, the Frisco teenager stabbed to death last year.
Sharifa Nicole Henderson, 34, was arrested in Kansas City on Sept. 11, two days after the indictment was handed down. The charges follow the June 9 conviction of Karmelo Anthony, now 19, in the killing of Metcalf, 17.
According to the indictment, Henderson sent a message through Facebook Messenger to a Metcalf family member on June 10 saying she would kill them and put them in a body bag, adding, “now this is a threat take me to court [expletive].”
That same day, prosecutors allege Henderson called the Collin County government — which had prosecuted the Anthony case — and said she would “demolish” the Metcalf family and “strangle” one of its members.
On June 11, Henderson allegedly sent another message to a family member through Facebook Messenger. “Don’t worry I’ll kill you next,” the indictment quotes her as writing. “I will hunt you forever until I kill you…I will be there. You will always have to look over your [expletive] shoulder.”
Henderson faces up to five years in prison on each of the three counts if convicted.
A case that has drawn national attention
Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff Metcalf, told FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth that his family has received more than 100 threats since the trial concluded. He has also accused media commentators of trying to profit off his son’s death.
Metcalf was fatally stabbed on April 2, 2025, during a regional high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas. Prosecutors said Anthony, then a Centennial High School student, walked into the Memorial High School team’s tent and sat down. When Metcalf, a Memorial High student, told him to leave, prosecutors said Anthony provoked a confrontation that ended with Metcalf stabbed in the chest.
Surveillance footage showed Anthony running from the tent afterward. Police reports obtained by Fox News Digital quote Anthony telling arresting officers, “I’m not alleged, I did it.” Investigators have said they found no evidence the two teenagers knew each other before the encounter.
The trial became racially charged, with Anthony’s supporters criticizing the composition of the jury and calling for his acquittal, while Metcalf family supporters gathered outside the courthouse demanding justice.
A Collin County jury sentenced Anthony to 35 years in prison. A judge denied his motion for a new trial last month, though his family is preparing an appeal.
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