A Texas state employee is out of a job this week after bosses discovered she had publicly cheered the brutal killing of a teenage boy because of his race.
Donna Murray Robinson, 35, held a position as a parole supervisor with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice before her social media activity caught the attention of agency officials.
The Houston native had taken to Facebook to weigh in on one of the state’s most racially charged murder trials in recent memory.
That trial centered on Karmelo Anthony, now 19, who stood accused of killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco back in April 2025.
A jury delivered a first-degree murder conviction against Anthony last week, and a judge handed him a 35-year prison term.
Court testimony painted a picture of how the confrontation unfolded. Anthony had taken a seat inside a tent reserved for Metcalf’s track team during a weather delay, and Metcalf asked him multiple times to clear out.
Anthony refused to budge and reportedly threw out a chilling challenge instead.
“Touch me and find out,” he told Metcalf, according to witnesses.
Metcalf responded by shoving Anthony, and that’s when Anthony drew a knife and drove it into Metcalf’s chest, witnesses testified.
The teenager bled out and died right there at the meet, cradled in the arms of his own twin brother.
News of the killing spread far beyond Texas, partly because of the volatile racial dynamics at play.
Metcalf was white and Anthony is black, and a faction of Anthony’s defenders worked to reframe the narrative, portraying the slain teen as a bully who had singled out Anthony over his skin color.
It was this powder-keg atmosphere that Robinson waded into voluntarily, posting comments under an account that has since been wiped from Facebook. The Dallas Morning News first reported on her since-deleted remarks.
Among her statements, captured in screenshots also obtained by the Daily Mail, Robinson dismissed any sympathy for the dead boy’s loved ones entirely.
“I for one don’t give a fk about the family’s loss,” she wrote of Metcalf’s grieving relatives.
She framed the killing as a form of payback against an entire group of people she accused of historical wrongdoing.
“It’s about time these fkng [sic] bigots feel the pain that they have inflicted on other groups of people since the beginning of time!” Robinson posted.
A separate comment went even further, explicitly tying her reaction to race and invoking other families’ losses.
“I’m just glad we didn’t have to bury another black child. Let them start burying some of theirs for a change. FK’em [sic] I said what I said,” she wrote.
Robinson didn’t hide who she was while posting this. She identified herself by her job title within TDCJ and even predicted that fellow prisoners would shield Anthony from harm once he began serving his sentence.
Once the posts surfaced internally, the agency acted fast. A TDCJ spokesperson confirmed to the Dallas Morning News that Robinson’s employment was terminated specifically because of what she had written.
The department didn’t hold back when explaining its reasoning publicly. Officials stressed that a job like Robinson’s demands neutrality that her own words had shattered.
Working at TDCJ “carries significant public trust and requires decisions free from personal bias,” the agency said in its statement.
TDCJ went on to spell out exactly how Robinson’s comments violated the standards expected of someone in her role.
“These statements are incompatible with TDCJ policy and values. They demonstrate bias and a lack of the impartiality essential to the fair administration of justice in Texas,” the statement read.
The agency made clear it intends to draw a hard line against this type of conduct going forward.
“Discriminatory or inflammatory conduct that erodes public confidence in the criminal justice system will not be tolerated,” officials said.
Robinson herself has gone silent since the story broke. Neither the Dallas Morning News nor the Daily Mail received any response from her after reaching out for comment.
The legal fight over Metcalf’s killing, meanwhile, is heading into another round. Anthony has already filed paperwork appealing both his conviction and his lengthy prison sentence.
Outside the courtroom, the case has continued fueling public clashes between people aligned with each side of the trial, underscoring just how unresolved the racial tensions surrounding Metcalf’s death remain.
