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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 13, 2026 4:37 pm<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated May 13, 2026 4:45 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A trial in Edmonton heard from a woman who says she was shredded in every direction by two dogs \u2014 two months before they killed an 11-year-old boy.<\/p>\n
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Tina Kelepouris said she often interacted with the two cane corsos<\/a> but had not seen the dogs in more than a year when they attacked her in February 2024.<\/p>\n The dogs\u2019 owner, Crystal MacDonald, is on trial facing a charge of criminal negligence causing death<\/a> after the animals killed Kache Grist<\/a> at her home in the Summerside<\/a> area in April 2024.<\/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\t2:06 Kelepouris said she and some friends were visiting MacDonald and the two dogs, named Chaos and Cairo. The unneutered dogs weighed 50 kg (110 pounds) and 57 kg (125 pounds).<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n The 46-year-old said she was playing with the dogs in the backyard when one knocked her down and then they both attacked her.<\/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 She said she spent four days in hospital with three broken ribs, a punctured lung and stitches all over her body.<\/p>\n The dogs were euthanized after the fatal attack in south Edmonton.<\/p>\n Kache\u2019s father is expected to testify Thursday.<\/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 \u2014\u00a0 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 13, 2026 4:37 pm Updated May 13, 2026 4:45 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,245546,2169,23752,17442,246200,245548,231968,245545],"class_list":["post-667558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cane-corso","tag-crime","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-crime","tag-edmonton-dog-attack","tag-kache-grist","tag-summerside","tag-summerside-dog-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667558","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=667558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Click](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/240409-NEETU.jpg\")
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