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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
\u201cI saw a mess on the floor and I didn\u2019t know what I was looking at,\u201d Wesley Grist said Thursday at the trial of the dogs\u2019 owner, Crystal MacDonald.<\/p>\n
MacDonald has pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence causing death<\/a> of Kache Grist<\/a>, who was mauled by her Cane Corsos at her home in the Summerside<\/a> neighbourhood in April 2024.<\/p>\n Grist said he was MacDonald\u2019s roommate\/tenant at the time. His son, who lived in British Columbia, was visiting him for spring break.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tCourt evidence video still of Kache Grist playing on the driveway shortly before being killed by two dogs in his father\u2019s landlord\u2019s home in south Edmonton\u2019s Summerside neighbourhood in April 2024.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSupplied\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Video from the day of the attack was played in court Wednesday.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Some of the footage, captured from a driveway security camera, shows Kache in the front yard shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n Grist said in court he was working on a car in the garage when Kache asked if he could go inside to play with his new video game.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n His father said yes and that he would be inside shortly after he cleaned his tools.<\/p>\n More footage played in court, captured from a camera on a neighbour\u2019s deck, showed only the backyard \u2014 but Kache can be heard letting one of the dogs into the house.<\/p>\n Muffled dog barking can be heard minutes before the sound of Grist repeatedly screaming, \u201cNo!\u201d and \u201cOh my God!\u201d<\/p>\n When he went inside from the garage, Grist found his son\u2019s lifeless body on the kitchen floor with the dogs.<\/p>\n He said he ran and grabbed Kache before one of the dogs grabbed onto the boy\u2019s pant leg and tried to pull him out of his arms.<\/p>\n \u201cI punched and kicked the dogs and threw them outside the door,\u201d Grist said through tears.<\/p>\n \u201cI ran back to Kache and started calling 911, but I couldn\u2019t do it because, you know, just I couldn\u2019t get my fingers to do what they were supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n A friend arrived at the front door and Grist said her jaw dropped when she saw he was covered in his son\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n Other footage from the home\u2019s doorbell camera shows a distraught Grist, hands coated in blood, walking back and forth between the home and driveway while crying on the phone after finding his son\u2019s body.<\/p>\n \u201cKache is dead, Kache is dead,\u201d the dazed father said repeatedly to the phone in his hand.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tSupplied\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Court evidence video still of Wesley Grist on the phone after finding his son dead inside his landlord\u2019s home in south Edmonton\u2019s Summerside neighbourhood in April 2024.<\/p>\n Police show up and are seen running into the home.\u00a0First responders also soon arrived and brought Grist upstairs while paramedics worked to revive Kache.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n The boy was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n An autopsy found the child died from a bite injury to the neck, and the dogs were later euthanized.<\/p>\n The unneutered dogs weighed 50 kg (110 pounds) and 57 kg (125 pounds).<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tAn Edmonton police officer running into the home in south Edmonton\u2019s Summerside neighbourhood where Kache Grist was killed by two dogs in April 2024.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSupplied\t\t\t\t<\/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 With files from Karen Bartko, Global News<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: This story contains details that may be upsetting. 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