{"id":669532,"date":"2026-05-14T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669532\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:11:10","slug":"father-of-11-year-old-boy-killed-by-dogs-in-edmonton-testifying-in-owners-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669532\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of 11-year-old boy killed by dogs in\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0testifying in owner&#8217;s trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father of an 11-year-old boy killed by two large dogs described finding his son\u2019s bloodied body on the kitchen floor with the animals surrounding him.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Grist is testifying in\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0today in the trial of the dogs\u2019 owner, Crystal MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p>She has pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence causing death after Kache Grist was killed by her two Cane Corsos at her home in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Grist says he was MacDonald\u2019s roommate at the time and his son, who lived in British Columbia, was visiting him for spring break.<\/p>\n<p>He says he was working on a car in the garage when his son asked him if he could go inside and play with his new video game.<\/p>\n<p>He says the boy went inside, and soon after, he found his son\u2019s lifeless body in the kitchen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grist says he threw the dogs out into the backyard when one tried to grab hold of the boy again.<\/p>\n<p>He then called 911, but the boy was declared dead after first responders arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of an 11-year-old boy killed by two large dogs described finding his son\u2019s bloodied body on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-669532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669532","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=669532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}