Background: News footage of the crime scene at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas (KXAS). Inset (left): Karmelo Anthony (Frisco Police Department). Inset (right): Austin Metcalf (GoFundMe).

A Texas teenager who allegedly stabbed another teenager to death during a high school track meet told police that he acted in self-defense.

Days after the April 2, stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17, new details have emerged about the events that led up to the altercation that resulted in his death. In an arrest affidavit obtained by local ABC outlet WFAA, police said that following the alleged incident, suspect Karmelo Anthony, 17, told officers, “I was protecting myself.”

As he was led away from the scene, the defendant reportedly stated, “He put his hands on me, I told him not to.”

Local CBS affiliate KBTX also reported on the arrest affidavit, which contained several redacted names of almost 30 students who were witnesses to the alleged altercation.

Background: News footage of the residence in Washington City, Utah, where Andreea Mottram was found dead (KUTV). Inset (left): Andreea Mottram (GoFundMe). Insets (right, from left to right): Mihaela Gabriela “Bella” Sorescu and Abigael Paige “Jay” Flanagan (Washington City Police Department).

A mother found stabbed to death at a Utah vacation home last month was killed by her own teenage daughter and her friend, police said.

In a press release from the Washington County Attorney’s Office, the Washington City Police Department provided the names of two suspects identified as the alleged killers of 47-year-old Andreea Mottram. Mihaela Gabriela Sorescu, 16, who also uses the name Bella, is Mottram’s daughter. The other suspect, Abigael Paige Flanagan, 17, who also uses the name Jay, was also staying at the home at the time. Police said in probable cause affidavits for both girls that they are “unaccounted for at this time.”

Insets: Kaine Villareal and Lane Burch (Kyle Police Department). Background: Negley Elementary School in Kyle, Texas (Google Maps).

A twisted TikTok prank, in which a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old from Texas followed elementary school students home from school and asked if they “wanted to be kidnapped,” has landed the two teens behind bars on charges of making terroristic threats, police say.

Kaine Villareal and Lane Burch, both of Kyle, were caught Wednesday following a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old as they walked home from Negley Elementary School that afternoon at around 3:20 p.m., according to the Kyle Police Department.

The pair approached the two kids and asked if they “wanted to be kidnapped” as part of a “prank” for social media, according to police.

Inset: Victim Ka’Niyah Baker (Columbia Police Department/WLTX/YouTube). Background: The vacant home where Ka’Niyah Baker’s body was found in a fire (WLTX/YouTube).

Two teenagers in South Carolina, ages 16 and 15, are facing murder charges for allegedly bludgeoning, stabbing and then burning a 13-year-old girl inside of a vacant house in what cops are calling a “gut-wrenching” killing that “shocks the conscious.”

“Brutal, heinous, vicious, gruesome, monstrous and disturbing. These are the words I’d use to describe this murder investigation,” said Columbia Police Chief William “Skip” Holbrook at a press conference Saturday.

Ka’Niyah Baker, the victim, was found dead in a “structure fire” at a vacant home on Cardamon Court in Columbia last Wednesday night, according to the Columbia Police Department. She had been reported missing on Jan. 12, with the last sighting of her being listed at a location roughly 20 miles away from where she was found.

“The manner of death was not an accident,” said Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford at Saturday’s presser. “Ka’Niyah was bludgeoned, stabbed and burned.”

Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, California (Screengrab via KTLA).

Just days after he was hit with a civil lawsuit for showing a group of teens obscene videos, an Orange County, California, sheriff’s deputy has officially been stripped of his license to work as a law enforcement officer.

Justin Raymond Ramirez, 34, faced criminal charges in February 2023 for showing four teenage girls videos that were pornographic, violent, and otherwise inappropriate — all while working as a school resource officer at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo. According to prosecutors, during a school lunch break in September 2022, two girls approached Ramirez’s patrol car and the officer showed them a video of a couple engaging in sexual intercourse. The girls then called two additional girls over to the car and Ramirez showed the video to all four students. The students were all 15 or 16 years old.

Prosecutors went on to describe the disturbing video:

After a few moments, another man enters the room with a knife. He stabs the first man and proceeds to repeatedly stab the woman on the bed. The woman ultimately goes lifeless as a pool of blood appears on camera. In addition to showing this video to the students, Ramirez sent the video by phone to another deputy sheriff in 2021.

Prosecutors said that a second video Ramirez shared with the group of teens showed two men smoking a controlled substance together and one man blowing smoke from the substance “into the rear end area of the other man.”

The two videos, along with a third that showed a severe dog bite sustained by a woman, were found on Ramirez’s cellphone by police and matched descriptions provided by the students. Additional searches of Ramirez’s cellphone showed other images that appeared to be inappropriately taken from crime scenes, nude photos of Ramirez on police grounds, and a video of a couple having intercourse that appeared to be recorded through the window of a private home.

When one student’s parent notified the school about the incident, authorities referred the case to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.

At the time, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement, “Ramirez had no business being in a position of trust around children — and he abused that position of trust in a truly disgusting way.” Spitzer also noted at the time that Ramirez resigned from the Sheriff’s Department in December 2022.

Edwin Rodriguez, not pictured, entered his plea to federal charges in the murders of Jorge Tigre, top left, Jefferson Villalobos, bottom left, Michael Lopez, bottom center, and Justin Llivicura, far right. (Victim’s photos and crime scene screenshots via CBS New York/YouTube)

A member of the MS-13 gang who fled the U.S. after a quadruple murder of four men lured to a park in New York under the guise of smoking pot pleaded guilty this week to racketeering charges in the scheme that stemmed from gang disrespect on social media.

Edwin Rodriguez, 24, also known as “Manicomio,” entered his plea to the federal charges in the murders of Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre, and Jefferson Villalobos. Rodriguez faces up to life in prison. His sentencing was set for Sept. 18.

Opening day at Six Flags Over Georgia turned into mayhem after 500 or 600 teens started brawling. A smaller group of teens allegedly started shooting at cops. (WAGA/YouTube)

Police got into a shootout with several teenagers just outside a Six Flags on Saturday night, injuring a 15-year-old boy.

It happened just after 6 p.m. at the Six Flags Over Georgia in Cobb County. Authorities say about 500 or 600 teenagers began running through the park and brawling near the entrance. Security and Cobb County Police began clearing out the park when a group of teenagers fired shots at cops on a street just outside park property, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a press release. No officers were hit but a bullet struck an unoccupied Cobb County police car.