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<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\tBy Daniela Germano<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted May 12, 2026 3:43 pm<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated May 12, 2026 3:52 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A trial in Edmonton is hearing grisly details about the behaviour of two dogs later put down for biting a boy on the neck and killing him.<\/p>\n
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Shawn Hesse testified that one day in 2023 he owned a Pomeranian that got loose at his home and ran toward the two Cane Corsos<\/a> that later killed 11-year-old Kache Grist<\/a> from Osoyoos, B.C.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tKache Grist, 11, was attacked and killed by two dogs on April 1.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSupplied\/Kendrah Wong\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n He says the two Cane Corsos grabbed his dog from different sides and tried to tear it apart.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n He rushed the Pomeranian to a veterinarian, but it later died.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n During Monday\u2019s opening day of testimony<\/a>, court heard how the dogs, had a documented history of aggression in the nine months leading up to Kache\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Court was told they killed the Pomeranian, bit the owner\u2019s downstairs tenant in the leg so bad he required stitches, killed the same tenant\u2019s cat in a separate incident and even injured their owner herself so badly she was forced to seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n The owner of the Cane Corsos, named Chaos and Cairo, is Crystal Jean McDonald. The unneutered dogs weighed 50 kg (110 pounds) and 57 kg (125 pounds).<\/p>\n MacDonald is on trial facing a charge of criminal negligence causing death<\/a> after the dogs killed Kache at her home in south Edmonton\u2019s Summerside<\/a> neighbourhood.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore on Crime Kache was visiting his father, who was a tenant of McDonald and lived in the same home as his landlord, during spring break in April 2024, when he was bitten in the neck by at least one larg-breed dog.<\/p>\n The Crown is attempting to prove that McDonald should have known her dogs were dangerous, given the reports of their aggressive history prior to the fatal attack on Kache.<\/p>\n The trial is scheduled to run through Tuesday of next week, with a dozen witnesses expected to take the stand for the Crown.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:54 \t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n \t\tNext Video<\/p>\n \u2014 More to come\u2026<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniela Germano The Canadian Press Posted May 12, 2026 3:43 pm Updated May 12, 2026 3:52 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,245546,2169,245547,23752,245548,231968,245545],"class_list":["post-665196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cane-corso","tag-crime","tag-crystal-macdonald","tag-edmonton","tag-kache-grist","tag-summerside","tag-summerside-dog-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\")
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